Two Days of Spanish

The past two days have been spend almost entirely in Spanish. There have been some requests to hear what my regular day is like so I thought I would tell you a bit about my schedule here in Honduras and how it will not be like this ever again.

The day usually begins at around 6 AM when I wake up because the sun is already high in the sky or because there are dogs barking, or because there are roosters crowing, or because the baby I live with runs into the furniture in his rollie-walkie chair. I try to sleep for a while and then end up getting up and out of my room by 7:45 to eat breakfast and walk to school. School is where all of the training takes place and it is about a 15 minute walk from where I live. At 8:30 we start Spanish class. This is less as like a class because I am not learning anything new but rather informally discussing whatever I want. After this we take a quick break.

From 10 to 11:30 all of us either work on lesson planning or organizing material or have individual meetings with the teacher trainers. In these meetings we get ideas, talk about things we are nervous about, get questions answered, etc.

At 11:30 we have lunch. Lunch has been AWESOME. Lots of vegetables and variety. I wish I could take lunch and make it dinner. Dinner has been bland. But such is Honduras. The from 1 until 5 we have teacher training with the occasional break. After that we are free to do whatever.

We usually head back to town and scatter to some degree. One of the girls has an amazing homestay. When I say amazing i mean, A/C, a real oven, always running water, and...yes...wait for it....A POOL. So we go and hang out in the pool. This is 1 of 2 pools in Cofradía.

Then at some point after that I eat dinner, shower, go to the apartments to work on lesson plans and other stuff and then go to sleep usually before 10.

That's a day in the life of us volunteers. Things are getting much better here. I getting used to the schedule and familiar with the team. I finally have a roommate so that should be fun. I am also becoming a lot busier and keeping myself occupied. So things are looking up from this end and I am still taking small steps of improvement. I imagine once I move into the apartment I will experience another huge leap forward. Thats all for now. I will post again soon about some common themes I see and some foods I have been eating. But I will keep you all in suspense.

¡Hasta Luego!