birthday!

So yesterday was my birthday... it was a fun, crazy day. It started off with God giving me the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen... the rest of the day we were in a cloud so that was pretty exciting. My kids gave me little gifts all day (I got some earrings, a bracelet, two teddy bears, a plastic flower.... and lots and lots of cards). It was so sweet. At the end of the day I had music class with the third graders where they had also made me lots of cards and had torn up construction paper for confetti that they threw when I came into the room (reminded me of New Year's Eve at my house :)). It was practically impossible to carry on a normal music class because they were all so excited. That ended up being ok though because about 10 minutes later the teacher that does Spanish with my kids at the end of the day came in and said she was taking over the third grade class and I needed to go to my classroom. I walked in and there were streamers, balloons, signs, and super-hyper kids all over the place. They sang me "Happy Birthday" - which apparently the entire school could hear. Some students had brought in a HUGE chocolate cake, some Ritz crackers, popcorn, and lemonade which we passed out in complete chaos. Apparently it's also tradition to take frosting from the cake and put it on the face of whoever's birthday it is so... by the end of school my entire face was covered in chocolate frosting. This would have been perfectly fine except that us teachers were going into town for a birthday supper and in order to do that we usually jump on the kids' bus right at 3 so I had to quick try and clean myself and my classroom up before the bus left!

We arrived into town just in time to find out there was a 4 o'clock curfew for the entire country of Honduras. Right before I came to Honduras, the government 'escorted' the president Zelaya out of the country because he'd been trying to put some things into the constitution that would make it easy to set up a dictatorship. Honduras has had a man named Micheletti in charge since then. Apparently Zelaya showed up in the country and everything went into lock-down mode. SOO. We were in town and everything closed so we just went back up the mountain. Today they cancelled school because the curfew went until 7 am and students wouldn't have been able to make it to school. We came down into town again to try and have a birthday lunch but... once again everything is closed. So we're using the internet and sitting around and we probably won't have school again tomorrow! Always something interesting here :)

But, all around, my birthday was wonderful. Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!