Suitcase Surprise

Today at about 4:00 I decided that I should probably start packing since I have to leave in the morning. Well, Diasira and Jhoselyn came over for the event, and to help me. OK OK mostly they came over because I told them that I had caramel brownies. Jhoselyn was a big help with packing though, and 'D' helped a lot with Christmas decorations. They came into my room and being the fun person she is 'D' climbed into my suitcase right away and told me that she was ready. Well, Jhoselyn zipped up the suitcase and started rolling the bag to the living room. I called to my roommate Jennifer to tell me if she thought the suitcase weighed too much or not. Jennifer lifted the bag up and said "yeah, I think that it weighs too much...at least 70 pounds." I said "Really?" I knew 'D' was in there and even though she is small I knew that it had to weigh a lot more than 70 pounds. I was like "what should I do?" Jen then went to get her scale saying that she could be wrong. Well her scale is in KG, so we figured out how much I weighed then I stood on the scale with the bag that I could barely lift and then Jen did all the math...her mouth dropped and she exclaimed, "This bag weighs 110 pounds!!!!" I replied "well, can you help me decided what to take out?" We unzipped the bad and 'D' jumped out and screamed. Everyone jumped and started laughing hysterically. It was so funny. Diasira was please with herself and the laughter she caused.

Tractor Fun

One night I coerced Mr. William, one of the men that oversees construction at the Ranch, to let me drive one of the big construction tractors. I had been wanting to drive it for a long time, and just waiting for the right moment to ask. Being the nice man Mr. William is, he let me. I was so excited! He gave me a little run down on how it works, then he let me drive it around this little circle. I took it around a tree and I was surprised how well it handles. He also let me back it up and lift and drop the buckets. After I was done Tammy, the Ranch nurse and good friend, asked if she could drive it. I think that she got to drive it further, maybe she is Mr. William's favorite. Tammy and I both agreed that it made for an exciting night and something to do on an otherwise uneventful night. It was really fun and I hope that I get to do it again.

Classic Shots

It has been a while since I've written a blog. My excuse is that we have had little to no internet over the last three weeks. Things in Honduras have been going well. We are wrapping school up for this semester. It has just flown by! Days seem to go at a normal speed, but months go by in the speed of a week. My kids are keeping me on my toes while I'm trying to keep them on their bottoms. Marlon is my little kangaroo, monkey and parrot all wrapped into one. He jumps around all the time, has more than a healthy amount of curiosity (as in can't keep his hands out of EVERYTHING) and on top of that repeats EVERYTHING that I say. While it can be very frustrating I have fun with it sometime. It's fun to make little random sound and hear him imitate it. Also, it's a great self-esteem boost...all I have to do is say "your beautiful" and Marlon says "Your beautiful." It's great. Outside of school there's not that much going on. I'm working on a dance with some of the girls here. They are doing very well with it and seem to really be enjoying it...despite the fact that they say they don't like ballet:) We have been playing a lot of soccer like always, but besides that there have been quite a few game of American Football, and Baseball being played. Some of the boys have started running in the mornings, which has been fun. I just have to say that I finished first today...not that I care or anything. We had a cold front come through last week and it was FREEZING! It was in the high 50 several days last week. The sun decided to come back out this week and it has warmed up some, but left most of us with colds. Being a preschool teacher I just love when my kids have colds and walk around all day with runny noses, and sneeze all over me. Anyways life has been fun like always and I will try to put some more detailed blogs up later this week. I hope yall are all just pluggin away and loving life. I would love to hear from all of you, so please drop me a note!