Stupid Pictures

Ok, I'm having trouble posting pics from Omoha and Copan but eventually I will post them and pictures of some of my students.

As for updates this weekend was not action packed but it has been productive. I made my way to San Pedro and found an ipod charger, so my ipod lives again! Thank goodness because I thought I was about to die.
Dale found a pedal for an electronic keyboard which was awesome. Its so weird here, some people have electronic keyboards (im not sure if anyone here owns an actual piano) but no one has the pedal extension on them and they're impossible to find. How can you play the piano wihtout a pedal? I mean it can be done but if you want to go one to play bigger better things the pedal is definately helpful. Dale also found a tuner for his guitar so he was very excited. He's been trying to teach me the guitar but I find the chords very difficult which I like to blame on the small size of my hands. If possible I'm going to try and locate a children's guitar and maybe I'll be able to actually learn something. If not there's the two years in Togo to practice, right?

For everyone who didn't get the memo I have received and accepted my invitation to be a Health Care and AIDS prevention extension agent in Togo, Africa (its right by Benin and not too far from Nigeria and about the size of West Virginia for those of you unfamiliar with Togo). My departure date is September24th 2006 and I will be there until December 2008. I'm very excited about it and what I'm even more excited about it no more school teaching.
I'm sure I'll encounter my own frustrations and obstacles with the Peace Corps but if it means no screaming 7th graders I'll take it.

Back to Honduras...Lets see Friday was Father's Day and the school put on a big show. All the teachers were responsible for a grade or their class or something and then that evening all the parents came and they all did their little performances. It was supposed to start at 5pm but this being Honduras we didn't start until 6.
It was a different experience to say the least. For one thing the songs people sang or danced to didn't actually have a lot to do with fathers, but little kids are cute so everyone is happy to see them up there dancing around. The interesting part is the way in which these kids dance...basically the little boys stand there and these young girls dance very suggestively girating (sp?) and shaking their ass and all that. When I saw the rehersal I thought the parents were going to be up in arms about this. I mean this is a Christian school with many evangelical Christian folks but they all just cheered them on. Then again if you see the way the moms dress down here I guess its not that suprising.

Then there was the high school. The Spanish teachers were in charge of that and the kids all sang these songs about shitty fathers. The 7th grade song was about a Father who never loved his kids enough or paid them enough attention so they didn't love him either. The 8th grade I wasn't so clear on and the 9th grade song was about this man whose wife was dying and he had abandoned her and their son and he was getting married to some other woman. How terrible is that for a Father's Day presentation?

Some of the 7th grade girls came to me the day of the presentation begging for me to help them come up with something. I told them I'd try but sadly we weren't able to do it. Well I say sadly but I'm a white person therefore I can't dance (no offense to all those who can). Aside from that they decided to ask me this about 6 hours before the program so no luck, but for Mother's Day Im taking over the 7th grade and we're gonna have the most kick ass program. It'll be tough because competing with cute 1st graders when you're in 7th is rough but it's gonna be awesome.

Dale has decided on Thursdays he's gonna try and start teaching kids who want to to swing dance. I, who was born with two left feet, have agreed to help him in this venture so I guess I'll be learning how to swing dance as well. I think its good because there are really no extracurriculars here. So wish me luck.

Well I'll post more later, I've wasted enough of the day.