Not much has happened since Sunday other than the usual happenings of Honduras, so I thought I'd use this blog for random thoughts and tidbits of information!
Funny things my kids say:
~ Today I was talking about human beings and my student Mario (seriously the biggest troublemaker, but I can't be mad at him! Dumb :)) thought that I said human bean, so he held up his pointer finger and thumb to be about the size of bean for clarification.
~ We had a language test where I had the students copy sentences from the board and underline subjects and verbs. Sentence: Jesus and His disciples went up the mountain and prayed. Sentence about a third of my students wrote?: Jesus and His disciples went up the mountain and PLAYED.
~ The kids in my class are obsessed with the idea that I'm in love with Noel Valledares, the portero (goal keeper) from the Honduras futbol team. Examples of how it's brought up?
1. The other day I was doing a long division problem on the board and messed it up and the kids said, "Miss, you are confusing us. Who are you thinking about that you can't concentrate on math? NOEL???"
2. My entire birthday was full of, "Just wait until Noel comes, he will sweep you off your feet and say, 'Miss Vander Ploeg, you are beautiful, I will take you to all my games for good luck.' "
3. One boy brought in a picture of Noel for me to hang on my wall (which, of course, I did).
4. One day I was talking with our PE teacher Mr. Bran, and Edith (the girl that instigated all this Noel stuff in the first place) said, "Miss VP, are you cheating on Noel???"
~ Love is seriously in the air at Abundant Life Christian Schools. We've had about 4 student couples show up this week in 4th through 6th grade. One started in my class this morning. Hernan (air-nahn) apparently asked Eunice (ay-ooh-nees-ay) yesterday who she liked and she wrote on a piece of paper that she liked him (precious!). She ran up to me with a bunch of girls this morning and told me all about it. THEN (sixth grade drama) Hernan showed her note to all the boys in class. She was super embarassed and hid her face for about one and a half class periods. I asked her how things were going at lunch and she didn't seem to shaken up so... we'll see how it all unfolds!
~ I have a picture of my family on my desk from a few years ago in front of a mountain in Colorado. My two cousins are with us and my kids come up all the time and just sit and stare at my family and talk about how beautiful they are (true :)). More importantly though, every single one of them wants me to bring Zuzu to Honduras and give her to them. (This picture was taken before we had Bailey, so I hope she doesn't get her feelings hurt :))
Interesting things since leaving the United States
~ I have watched tv three times- once at a Chinese restaurant in Gracias- a Spanish soap opera that was ridiculously enthralling; on our Tela/beach vacation- we watched all kinds of music videos (excuse me Shakira, SheWolf! - is that popular at home??), an episode of One Tree Hill (for any 2nd East girls/Shayla... none of the other girls had seen it before and they were seriously all on the edge of their seats- remember the episode where Nathan and Haley get married and Cooper drives the car off the bridge with that 17 year old and Nathan and Lucas jump in? .... yeah. that was the episode :)), and an episode of Friday Night Lights! ahh... television
~ I haven't looked in a full-length mirror once. I don't think they don't exist here. Apparently I look great though, no one has said anything to the contrary :)
~ Power goes out all the time here. This week we had the power out for two days at both our house and the school. This means no hot water, no lights (bedtime usually gets bumped up to 7ish), no bell at school (someone blows a whistle), and we don't have a copier (reason I was writing the Jesus sentence test on the board in the first place)
hm... well I can't think of any others at the moment. Fun huh?
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