First Day of School

Today was the first day of school.  I was excited and as always a little nervous - I want it to be a great year! 

This was a certificate I gave one of my students last year...she brought it with her today attached to her book bag.  It really made my happy :)

 

Create in me a clean heart, O God....Psalm 51:10 

 

 

A collage from the past years when the kids have written about a verse that is important to them. 

I love this!  

 

I hope they will listen to this....they love to "do their homework" by just writing anything. 

 

Creativity Corner....where we will display their art workk, creative writing, poetry, or other works they do to express their creativity.

 

One of my girls, who is very creative but hates her art Paces.  She had a lot of Art Paces she had not completed from last year so I gave her this project to make for me....I gave her the saying and told her to use her imagination.  I love what she did.  It is painted on a piece of wood, and the letters were cut out of thick stirofoam and painted.  I Love it!

 

 

 

 

Hanging out at break time

 

Breaktime

 

 

Oscar...he always makes us laugh!  Gabriela is dressing him up! 

 

During highschool break I peeked inside the next classroom and found these cute kids!  The girls were sitting quietly in their offices...the boys were not sitting and were not quiet!  Love Boys!

 

 

Honduras vs .USA

Wednesday was a soccer game in San Pedro Sula - Honduras' first game of the qualifications for the  World Cup in 2014. 

I was excited to go - it was my first professional soccer game. 

 

We did some face painting in the van on the way to the stadium.  Fredy is ready to cheer for his country!

 

I didn't understand why we needed to leave so early - 8:30 for the 2 1/2 hour drive - when the game didn't start until 3:00...but when we got the stadium, I understood.

We arrived at the stadium then trying to figure out where the entrance was ...

 

 

We got in line....and the line goes for as far as we could see and the entrance was on the other side of the stadium.   One entrance for thousands of people...it was going to be a long afternoon! 

 We stood in the melting sun, wondering if we would ever get in!

The line behind us....

 

We stood in line for over an hour and barely moved because people were jumping in front of the line and causing a traffic jam at the entrance.  Thanks to Fredy and his fast talking....convinced a security guard to let the "melting gringos" in a different entrance....we were definately melting!

 

We were so happy to be inside - finally!

It was an intense feeling, being in Honduras, dressed in my blue and white soccer jersey with blue and white stripes on my face (I had to cheer for Honduras!), but proud of the flag and the history and what it stands for as we stood and sang the Star Spangled Banner.

So happy that Honduras won this game - Honduras 2 - USA 1 .

The game was fun, the excitement was real, I loved cheering for the team and jumping with joy when they scored a goal.....but there was a lot I didn't like seeing.  I don't have photos of these things, and a photo would not be adequate, it was something you had to be here to experience.

What I saw and experienced at the game, in the natural, and what God showed me and deposited into my heart that day, makes me have a deeper burden for this country. 

Movie Night

I had a Hermie dvd (Max Lucado story) in Spanish that I gave to my church here in Honduras.  Pastor Joel thought it would be great to have a movie night, invite the kids from the neighborhood and show the movie and make popcorn for the kids. 

Suyapa and I making popcorn. 

 

Marjorie helping with the popcorn.

 

Joel putting the popcorn in bags for the kids

 

 

Kids munching on popcorn while they watch the movie.

 

 

Afterward, Joel is talking to them about what they learned in the movie.

Praying and asking God to help them to be obedient.

It was a fun night!  We had a lot of kids that came in from the neighborhood.  I hope we will be able to have more nights like this!