After approximately 22 hours in an airport, followed by a long and windy 4 hour bus ride, I finally arrived at my home for the next 10-11 months! My roommate and I were the last to be dropped off and after seeing all the other houses we were so anxious to see what ours would look like! Let's just say going in without any expectations paid off because I am very pleased with my house! I live in a pretty good sized house in town with 2 other roommates. We have a nice sized living room and a full stove, microwave, and a shower with HOT WATER, so no complaints here! Our first couple days, us teachers have been walking the town getting to know all the places and trying to put our house together!
Yesterday we had our first school meeting and finally got to tour the school I will be spending the majority of my time at for the next 10 months! I was so shocked at how big and beautiful this school was! After volunteering and helping build schools in small villages outside El Progreso, I was expecting it to be similar. The school I will be teaching at teaches from pre-k to the 11th grade! Here is a couple pictures of Minerva:
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| In the back you can see the classrooms, these are mainly the secondary classes. |
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| This is the "U" and also know as where I will be teaching! |
Yesterday was the first real day that it felt like I wasn't on vacation. It really started to hit me that, this is my life, my school, my house, and my community for the next year!
On our walk home from some other teacher's house last night, we encountered one of our future students. He came running up to us, asking if we were teachers for Minerva. He was so excited to see u and practice his english he stumbled to find the right words in english. He was beyond excited to talk to us. He told us he was going to be in the 4th grade and actually met his teacher because she was walking home with us. He proceeded to tell us how excited he was to be starting in just two short weeks and how he could not wait for gym class (because he got to play soccer!) After we talked for five minutes he told us he would see us soon and gave us a big hug! That moment was reassurance that we are about to do great things for these kiddos!
Basically, that has been my life for the past few days! Nothing to exciting but definitely change from what I was doing last Tuesday! Tomorrow the new teachers are headed to Lake Yojoa. There we will be staying at a Brewery on the lake! I am looking forward to seeing more of Honduras and relaxing before we start our teacher days Monday!
xoxo,
Carly
P.S. Yes, I have already gotten a sunburn (and it rained most of yesterday, typical Carly Problems) and secondly, my roommate and I got two avocados and a plantain for 25 cents today! Yes you heard me correctly, a quarter!!!!
....only in Honduras!
Ah, so much fun!
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