Happy Independence Day from Honduras! This past week was a fun filled with custom tailored shirts, lots of band practice, hot Honduran sun, a parade, and one of the most hectic weeks to date. This past week of school was pretty crazy if I must say so myself. It started on Tuesday when we celebrated Day of the Children. This is a day where the kids are allowed to show up wearing normal clothes (not their typical uniforms) and basically think they can do whatever they want. The kids also got cake and pop in celebration of themselves and received an extra long recess. The day was fun in a sense that we got to see some personality in how the children dressed themselves, however giving children cake and pop as a snack is always a great combination. Needless to say the children were a little bit nutty.
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| One of my favorite 5th graders, Roberto. He might be the next Rico Suave. |
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One of my little guys, Harvis on "colors" day.
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The rest of the week consisted of getting ready for the Independence Day Parade that would be happening for the whole town on Saturday morning. Each day of school we would take the whole school and practice marching around the block. And if you have ever worked with children before you know that any slight change to a child's schedule leads to a crazy day. My kids took full advantage of that too. By the time we were done practicing, we had about 15 minutes before "Snack time/Recess Time" so I hardly had anytime actually teach last week. However, the madness only lasted a few days and it was a really fun experience to see how they prepare and celebrate their own independence.
Bright and early, all us teachers woke and met on Calle Principal (our main street) to wait for our wonderful students to arrive. It was really cool to see all the hard work start coming together, the students looked awesome on all their different themed costumes and all the kids were so excited to show off their hard work. We paraded down the main street and into the main park. Like I mentioned before, it was a fun experience and Honduras loves to show off their pride. I have attached some pictures from the parade.
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| Most of us teachers with our custom tailored shirts that we had made for us, and we only had to pay 20 Limperas (about 1 American dollar). Yes, they look kind of similar to a waitress/flight attendant shirt. |
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| Little Miss Independencia, one of my girls from my class. |
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| Handful of trouble, if I say so myself, not really but just a few of the Prepa boys before the Parade started. |
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| Some of the drum line. |
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| I don't really remember what the theme of his costume was but all I know is that he was adorable. |
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Google's homepage yesterday, the countries bird flying an Honduran flag in his mouth. I found it to be pretty neat!
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As a reward for our busy day Saturday, we have today off! So today, I am going to enjoy my day off doing laundry and lesson planning!
xoxo,
Carly
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