Some Real Info

I will admit that the last blog was kinda odd, in that we told you that we were having problems with the internet and uploading pictures to the internet, and then we turned around put up some pictures with that notice. The reason for this is that it just so happened that at the moment I was posting that message the internet got really fast (it often fluctuates up and down like most everything else here, electricity, water pressure, etc...)and I decided to seize the moment and throw up some pictures even though we had just finished saying that we couldn't. Anyways now that that has been said, Here are some more pictures (the internet is being very cooperative as of late). As many of you know I am teaching English in a University here in Pena Blanca, I am there for one hour a day Monday - Thursday and my class ranges from about 10-25 students depending on what I can only assume are their moods in the morning or the weather (many of my students come in from surrounding towns and when it is raining hard they usually do not come - Hondurans don't like to go out in the rain and also the mud can make it impossible to get into and out of many small towns). This is a picture taken on just such a day, as you can see by the small amount of students. Things are going well with my students, I am finally learning all of their names, and they are getting into the swing of how I run my classroom. I think that some students were anticipating that I would run it at a Latin tempo (read: very relaxed and somewhat unorganized), and now they have found that I expect them to be ready for class EVERYday as well as studying on their own, since we only have class 4 hours a week. Many of them have caught on and are progressing very quickly with their English. Well it looks like the internet is beginning to ebb the other direction so I will have to cut it off here, perhaps more if the internet speed swings back.....