The story of my life the past few days…meetings, meetings, and more meetings. A few highlights without the boring details. The history of Academia Los Pinares (ALP): The school started off as a missionary kid’s school. There was a population of Mennonite missionaries so they created a school for their kids. After a while other missionaries from different denominations asked if they joined in and so if they added kids they had to add a teacher so it became a multidenominational school however with the Mennonites in charge. After a while locals started to ask if they could join too, so they locals joined…The Mennonites then decided they didn’t want to be in charge of the school so they created a board with the Baptists, Christian Reformed, Brethren, and one other. And now the school will be starting its 45 year. The school started to let pretty much anyone come making a very secular student body and they are in the process of trying to get more Christian families in the school to balance it out. This they are also starting a scholarship program otherwise it is mostly upper class kids.
So that is the brief summary of the school…I won’t bore you more with all rules we learned etc…
My classroom…Its 3 years old…it’s really nice! It has lots of white walls…My largest classes are 24 students.
Adventures…My roommates and I walked further up the mountain and I made them venture with me through a fence to find a lookout of the city. We found one…it was awesome.
There are little pulperias which are corner stores…you can get snacks for cheap and meet people. Did that a couples times.
Met the returning teachers and a couple of them are going to help us get connected to organizations in the community which is a huge blessing. Honestly being here you could totally stay on this hill and never really experience Honduras. You speak Spanish in the classroom, at home...you aren’t forced to learn Spanish or get involved. NO THANK YOU! So we are going to hopefully help out with street ministries handing out shoes and clothes and food etc…

Anyone been reading about the political situation? You guys probably know more than I. We don’t have internet in our apartment so it is very hard to stay connected. And since we are up on the hill we have no clue what is going on in the city. Tuesday there were demonstrations and a Popeye’s restaurant was destroyed and a bus was burned. So it is real and it is happening but I am perfectly safe. There was a demonstration by the mayor’s house that we could hear and see a bit of the march from the balcony of our apartment. Again I am behind a locked gate so we are safe. Could make for an interesting school year if our busses can’t get through the city. We’ll just have to wait and see! Pray!