A New School Year

After coming back from travelling, which was the best time of my life, you may’ve though it would’ve been hard to get back to school and into the old routines. Well, you’d be wrong there.

After helping out in the office at lot with Profa Ligia and Profa Doris, the school year finally kicked off at the start of February, with new timetables, a few new kids and one or two new teachers. So far this year I’m loving teaching pretty much all of my classes. Yeah, there are some who annoy me from time to time, but on the whole they’re all great to teach.

Profa Ligia headed to the mainland to have her baby at the start of March which she called Sam. She’ll be back in June, but in the meantime she’s lent us her dog, Max, while she’s away, so that’s nice and gives us something to do in the evening and whenever we’re free, which isn’t often!

So far this term we’ve had Father’s Day, a school excursion to the beach and Felicity’s visit. Father’s Day was really sweet, all the kids brought their Dads to school and there was a talk and a few games, though in typical Honduras style the event started late and we couldn’t finish it. Oh well, we got free food and fresco so we weren’t complaining.

The school trip to West Bay was really good. We were meant to go and watch the dolphin show at Anthony’s Key but because the kids didn’t have their uniform on we couldn’t go at the discounted price, so we went to the beach instead. About three hours of playing with the kids in the sea, I was absolutely exhausted, and a bit pink which the kids all laughed at on Monday!

Felicity came for our desk officer visit last Thursday which was really nice. It was really good to see a familiar face and spend a day with her. She observed some lessons, which went pretty well; we went for a walk around town and had a meeting with the principal of the school and a couple of other teachers. It’s really nice to be spoken about positively by the other teachers; it shows all the hard work really does pay off!

I’ve started to work in the ‘caseta,’ the little shop that sells food at school. It’s incredibly hot in there and with a tonne of kids shouting their order at you it can be a bit stressful but they give me free fresco and sometimes a bit of food so it’s worth it for me! One day a couple of weeks ago I ate a plate of chicken with plantain chips from the ‘caseta,’ then it was someone’s birthday so I ate a plate of rice and chicken and a massive piece of cake before heading to Mary Lou’s for lunch! Hopefully I didn’t offend her by not eating very much. If I’m not obese by the time I get back to England then a true miracle will have occurred!

That’s about it for now so hope you’re still enjoying reading this and only 4 months or so till I get back home!

Sam xx