So Christmas is definitely drawing nearer and on Friday we had the school Christmas play (Velada Navideña), which turned out to be a much bigger event than we were expecting. It was also the first Christmas play that I have ever been to that was outside, in bright sunshine, and almost 30 degrees!! It was a little confusing. Each class was performing something for the parents, and I had decided to do a poem with my children called "Christmas Comes". Unfortunate...

As it turns out November is a terrible month to have a birthday, back in England November means cold, wind and plenty of rain, and guess what…in Honduras November means the exact same thing, but with the added factor of potential Hurricanes!!! Yay!! Soo, for my birthday, seeing as we couldn't take a trip, we decided to treat ourselves to lotss and lotss of food. :D For those of you who don't know, my birthday was last Monday (the 12th), and so on Sunday nigh...

So the football turned out to be an interesting experience. We woke up fairly early and donned our football shirts and waterproofs, yes the first time since we got here that it has rained in the morning and it picked the day of the football. Anyway, I got to wear my purple flowery waterproof for the first time ever. Luckily we were some of the first to get on the minibus which quickly reached double its capacity, one guy came prepared with a bottle of tequila a...

So on Friday we celebrated National Identity at school, and it was probably one of the best day I've had since I got here! All the teachers, along with many parents, spent Thursday afternoon preparing the classrooms for the day, each classroom had a different theme and my Grade 1's had typical wines. On Friday morning we got to school nice and early to change into our national dresses, we were very dubious when we first got given our dresses, but after putting ...

So I have now been teaching my lovely Grade 1's for 4 weeks and I absolutely love it. I have to be very careful about what I say, and the way I say things as they are all picking up English so quickly and copy my words and phrasing. Every afternoon when they leave they all have to come and say good-bye, so I know they haven't been kidnapped and what not, and on Fridays I started saying "Good-bye, see you on Monday", however Joseph doesn't seem to realise that t...