Surely Will make you smile!

This little girl's name was Bridgette. She is super adorable as you can see! Enjoy!

Video!

So this is a skill that I will never be able to master, Most of the time it drives me crazy, because they walk ALL over the classroom doing it. But it puts a smile on my face, and I think it might put one on yours! =)

X-mas NEWS

Man! It has been forever since I wrote! i will do my best and update you on all my AWESOME activities since I last wrote!
We had our Christmas program on Thursday night, December 11. It was so adorable. All of us were dressed up, our kids looked adorable and I stood up in front of them and directed them. I felt so proud. THey did SO well! I was beaming, like a proud parent. hahaha. After my kids sang they ran straight to the classroom where they all had presents waiting under our christmas tree.
The parents had gone together and bought all he girls hannah montana bags (GASP) And the boys Legos. Theyy immediately started tearing into them. I WAS LIKE "WAAAAAAIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!" But it was no use, they were done for. So i just let them go ahead, after all, it was Christmas right?!
So now comes the super exciting part.
December 12- All the teachers went to the school to take down all the christmas decorations (*tear) and then we all went out to eat. All the teachers and staff in one room at a restaurant! it was so fun! I did a secret santa and so I gave my present away and got mine and then returned home. My mom and I took our stuff over to Greg and Emily's where we were goign to be staying for the weekend then we awaited our bus. The bus to take us to San Pedro, to get jared. =) I wish I could explain to you my excitement, but I will try and hold it in.
So long story short, we drove to San Pedro, waited in the terminal for what seemed like eternity and FINALLY I saw him come out behind the door. I ran past all the people and hugged him! It was about time!
That Sabbath all of us girls, Jared, and my mom went to the plaza and took a guitar, violin, and an Obo. Sometimes we like to sing in the cathedral, so that[s what we did. Then we were having so much fun that we sang out in the plaza and people were gathering around us! it was so much fun!
Sunday night the girls surprised me with a "happy half birthday party" and it was ADORABLE! they made a life-size little mermaid and put it on the wall and had fish all over the wall too, we ate crepes (my favorite!) and played Disney Trivia. Of course my team won! =) My birthday is June 4 and a lot of the girls will already be gone by then, so they decided to have a half birthday party! Can't say I've ever had a birthday in December! =)
I got to show Jared my classroom, my school and my town! We went to get smoothies at our FAVORITE place, 'Tropical Juice'!
On Monday Sasha, Heidi, Kristen, Jared, my mom and I headed out on our adventure. And an adventure it was!
We hoped on a bus to La Guama and got off and got a nice man to take us up to the National Park in the back of his truck. =) My mom REALLy enjoyed this. We got to the national park and got into our little dorm room and were set. Our trip had finally begun!
We hiked around the next day and ate the local food, plato typico (beans, rice, tortillas, plaintains and cheese.)
The next day we hopped back on another bus and headed to some other town, only to walk around, find another bus and get on it until finally we arrived in Tela. I told the Taxi Driver where we were going but they were confused so after I called the guy who owned the place he explained it to them and we finally arrived!
"Caribbean Coral Inn" It was incredible! INCREDIBLE! We played in the waves and hung out with these adorable kids! The sunsets were gorgeous and we had the BEST FOOD! we would tell them what we wanted to eat, they would go out and buy our food and make it for us. We were the only ones staying there and it was like we had our own private beach! Hardly anyone was on it but these local Garifuna people! They speak this weird Jamaican spanish! A few spoke English and came up to Jared and asked him if he played basketball! He ended up playing with these local guys on a court that was barely off the beach! They werre amazed at this White boy who could dunk! Anyway, after Tela we headed to La Ceiba where we stayed in a hostel called "Banana Republic Guesthouse!"I have never been to onne of those so it was pretty sweet! There was a community kitchen and a girl was there from Australia, just traveling around for a few months!
So after the hostel we got on the Ferry to Utila! I was up front because i was PRAYING that God would let me see a wild dolphin! I have alwasy wanted to see one, and so I figured this was my chance! So as I was busy in conversation I hear "LOOK KANDICE!" i look over just in time to see FIVE beautiful, gorgeous creatures jump out of the water and go back in! It was awesome! I wish i could tell you EVERYTHING, but this is already the LONGEST blog in the history of blogs, so i will try and keep it brief! We did awesome things! Our place that we stayed was OVER the water adn so we had an aquarium below our feet! We saw sting rays, Puffer fish, baracudas, i was beautiful! We had a hammock and beautiful sunsets every single night! We went snorkeling, SCUBA Diving and we just hung out around the island. Island life is awesome! Jared, Sasha and I went to this Friday night vespers at this little SDA church and ended up talking to the pastor who jared asked if he coudl borrow a guitar and told him we'd do special music if he wanted us too... It was kind of a joke on our part but the next day my mom, Jared and I were sitting in church and in the middle of the service he pastor stopped and said that "our visitors have a special for us!" I just about died! So anyway, we got up front and sang a song together, "hide me now," it was awesome. It was such a blast and I'm SO glad we did it! Those people were so greatful! It was so good for me to see something so beautiful come out of nothing, we had kind of practiced a "what if they ask us" song but not really, so up front at this church was totally unrehearsed! But God totally pulled through. He made us sound beautiful together. It was a complete blast! I won't ever forget my christmas I spent on the beach, eating Top Ramen for lunch! It was definitely hard to say goodbye when Jared left, but the memories will last forever! I hope you enjoyed my novel! I will try and not write so much next time! =) I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! Please keep all the girls in your prayers, many of them went back to the States for Christmas and they need your prayers in getting back into the swing of living in Honduras, it's definitely not the U.S. this we have learned.
I have been blessed greatly, and I'm learning so much. My mom leaves on Tuesday and then It's back to reality. Back to my kids, and back to responsibility. I'm halfway, and time has flown by! I am going to miss this place, I know I will. And I miss my kids too. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually am excited to hear the word "MMMMIIISSSSSSS" that's my name, dont' wear it out! ;) Feliz Ano Nuevo!

ALMOST CHRISTMAS BREAK!

I only have a few hours left of school. I can honestly say that I am reading for christmas break. I thought I was always ready for CHristmas break as a student, I thought that I DESERVED Christmas break. ANd I´m sure I did. BUt what I never knew was that the teacher´s deserved the same, if not more than I did. So here I am, experiencing my first ¨last day of school before break¨feeling, and I can´t wait. You get toa point, even if you love your kids, that you really just want to hvae some time a way from them to rememeber how lucky you are. My mom arrived here in Sunday. I think her eyes have been opened. I left out some stories when I would talk to her, beause I didnt want her to worry. Well now she sees what I haven´t told her. hehe. WHOOPS. =) Naw, my kids love her, they always ask ¨miss, and your mom?¨ We gave them all little prizes today. Last night we had our christmas gift exchange and white elephant. It was so fun. I got a cute photo album from Greg and then in the White elephant I got OREOS, AND PEANUT BUTTER. MY ALL TIME FAVORITE! Everyone brought random things like a dust pan, candy, a walla walla calender (thank you SM office...) huge random magnets. It was hilarious. The bets part of all was that Greg brought a picture of himself. lol. HE WOULD. My mom made us spaghetti and salad, and the girls at the other house made this AMMAAZZZINNGG popcorn cake thing with m&ms in it. YUM.
Yesterday was a rough day, but as you can tell, it ended good. I hd to redo a lot of my grades because the computer messed them up. So that was pretty depressing. I was doing that for 3 hours. And then when my mom and I were making the alfredo sauce i was going to pick it up and move it, but our ONLY pan is broken, so it spun around and spilled everywhere. ANyway, just a small setback. And last but not least, we tried to highlight my hair. Hence the word ¨tried¨ I look like one of those playboy bunnies who actually has black hair but attempts to die her whole head blonde so it turns out randomly orangish. So today the mission is to fix the disaster... Don´t worry I got to wear a santa hat today. Little does the rest of the world know that I am actually hiding a disaster! lol. It´s kind of funny actually... Anyway, At the end of the day, I stopped and reminded myself that I am so lucky. So lucky to be here, so lucky to have the girls I have, so lucky that we have created such an awesome family here. So lucky that I actually have hair, even it is orange. SO LUCKY that my mom is here. So lucky that Jared is coming... TOMORROW. =)
Have a wonderful day....

HAPPY SABBATH!

I survived today. It was parent teacher conferences, the mother of all parent teacher conferences, they came to pick up their kids grades. It was scary at first because expecting parents to be angry when they saw that their kids didn't do as well as they assumed they would. That's the bad thing about assuming... if you never come to check on your child, then how can you possibly expect everything to be ok? I dunno. Anyway, everything went very well actually, I had to change a few grades because of errors made in the computer, but other than that, things were fine. I used more spanish than I normally do so i was pretty proud of myself. haha. MI MADRE VIENE! I can't wait! She's leaving tomorrow so all of you should pray for her safe travels. We have one more week of school, in which I will be cramming as much information into them as I can! We have the Christmas concert/program on Thursday night so basically all of thursday is going to be spent practicing. This week was super fun because the seven of us missionaries drew each other's names and did secret santa. I had Heidi. let me tell you how difficult it is to surprise someone who you spend every waking hour with (minus school hours). We live within 5 feet of each other. But it was super fun, we all surprised each other everyday this week with random gifts, or food, or notes. It once again is so nice to have them. What would I do without them? Bethani had me and I got zambos (chips made from fried plantains), ketchup (YUM), granola bars, fruit roll up, popcorn, and a wonderful frosty with oreos. It was like America had come to me! Basically that's all I have to say right now... Happy Sabbath everyone! Keep us in your prayers as we finish out this next week. Christmas is coming!

DECEMBER!

WOW! Where has the time gone? It's already December. I only have 1 more school day left this week and then Friday we have parent teacher conferences, they will be the most intense for sure because we're giving the parents the kids grades. I'm scared. I have like 8 kids who didn't pass. So I guess I'll have to explain myself... basically my response is going to be "your child didn't do his homework." that's the story. MY MOM IS COMING on Sunday. Can you believe it? I can't. What is it like to see someone after you haven't seen them for 4 months. I certainly wouldn't know. This ist he perfect week for her to come because we're doing all the Christmas things like the Christmas performance that I've been teaching my kids to sing "Angels we have heard on high." Keep us in your prayers, especially those we are going to be going home. I imagine it would be tough to go back home and then come back here. Anyway, I must get some sleep. But as far as life in Honduras, It's going well. I'm healthy and happy. This is home.
GOD BLESS!

THANKSGIVING!

Hello all, I realized that it has been forever since I last posted anything on here. These last two weeks have been so crazy! Getting our grades done, making sure all the kids have taken their "recuperation" tests... which is pretty lame I might say. THe kids don't have to pass and they know that they don't have to do their homework because they have a test at the end of the partial that can make up for all of their test scores from the whole partial. It's pretty dumb. But anyway, so I have been very busy getting all my grades done, and then, on top of that, I lost my flash drive. Which contained all my grades and such. Not to worry, I already did them again! =)
So now, here I am, stuffed full of food, and writing a blog. We just got back from the Military base. We got to eat thanksgiving there! it was SOOO GOOD! There were mountains of food! I was feeling a little low about not being home for thanksgiving, but this is my home for right now. I can't believe I have been here for so long! It's feels like It has FLOWN by! I don't know where the time has gone. I am so happy to be here. My kids are way better than when I first began and I feel like I have things under control. Except for random kid outbursts. Today I had to send 3 kids to Ms. Norma (the Vice principal) I couldn't even teach they were going so crazy! But not to worry, as soon as they returned they were perfect angels! Isn't that the way it always works once you get in trouble? They don't celebrate thanksgiving here but at our school they kind of do because there are so many of us Americans that they let us out early today so we could go to the base and eat. The kids had a party today before we left too. My parents brought Chinese rice and cake and pop! They do parties here like you won't believe! That's one thing I've definitely gotten used too! =)
These pictures are randomly placed because these last two weeks have been crazy, one is from Sunday when we went to a small town called Valley of the Angels, there is an Adventist Hospital there and we got to visit it. Another one is of my 7th graders and I and the one of Sasha and I is from today at the base. This one is of me playing a violin that we found at some store. It was pretty cool so I took a picture of it!
Another interesting story is we went over to one of our friends houses and we watched Honduras play Mexico. As you can tell, we are very decked out and ready to cheer on the "home" team. We are hoping that in February the US will play Honduras... although our loyalties will be divided when that comes around, we will thoroughly enjoy ourselves!
I hope you all have a VERY HAPPY Thanksgiving! To all my fam- I miss you, I wish I were there, but I'm not, SO EAT UP! =)

Divine Appointments

I have recently been awakened to the realness of divine appointments. Let me tell you a story. We were eating out a few weeks ago and a lady came up to us and was almost crying. She was so excited to see Americans. She is living in an orphanage and she's here by herself. I can't imagine. We gave her our number and she called us and was planning to come for dinner. She ended up not being able to make it but we didnt' have her number to call her. So we meet this guy from the military base who has her number so it gives it to us. IT"S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL... so anyway, we haven't been able to get in touch with her since but we've really been thinking about her. She was only here a month and she was about ready to go home. We told her that it gets easier and that she just needs to hang on. Trust that God wants her here. After all, that's what we did. So today Sasha and Jenny and i took a little mini vacation to this hotel that had a pool. We paid a small fee to use it and Jeanne ended up being there. Weird? No. Divine Appointment. We ended up talking for hours... when I say hours.. i mean HOURS. About God and what's he has done in her life, why she's here, why we're here, and it was a common mutual love in Christ, right there next to a pool. God is so good. Sometimes in works in mysterious ways. She thinks she'll be able to make it through the next 5 months if she has people she can talk to. We plan to be those people for her.
Hope you have a wonderful Sabbath!

La Cancha!

On Thursday Night we headed off to the school for an incredibly fun night! The kids have been practicing dances for this "cultural night." All the different grades have been learning dances and Thursday was the night that they would perform, there were judges and tons of food stands that the kids parents were in charge of. It was so much fun!
Each class had a different part of Honduras to show what food they had, what dresses they wore and so on. They had samples of all the different kinds of foods and tents decorated! It was so cool! The picture below is of one of the tents.
The Kids got all dressed up in their costumes and they looked SO ADORABLE... see for yourself! My kids are the cutest kids EVER! They braided yarn into their hair so it looked like they had super long hair, and the boys had cute little hats and matching white outfits... so cute.. so cute.
We ate so many different things! We had corn on the cob covered in cheese, we had cupcakes, hot chocolate, hot lemonade (YUUUMMM), Baleadas, and many other delicious things that I don't know how to spell.... I was so much fun and the kids were so excited that we came to watch them! They have some super sweet traditions here! It's been fun.... It's November! I can't believe it! Gotta keep trudging on! We're doing it! Keep praying for us!

I love My Children!

This is Carlos! One of my favorites! I know I probably shouldn't have favorites... but watch this and he will be your favorite too! =)

CLEAN UP ON AISLE 9!

Well, we got to go help people. We set out to walk around and find some people to help and stumbled upon a girl who went to our school! We were so excited! We got right in there and started shoveling mud out the door. It was so awful to see the houses wrecked but it felt so good to help them. I was sweeping mud and all the sudden I saw something move! I yelled "STOP!" I picked it up and it was a little turtle. I was going to keep it and it ended up being the little girls pet! I WAS SO HAPPY! I SAVED HER PET TURTLE! The girl offered it to me but of course I declined. Heidi told me that the father was telling her in Spanish that she should give it to me because we helped her. So luckily for Heidi's stunning Spanish skills I didn't take the turtle.
We prayed with the man when we were done and he was really appreciative. This was the 2nd time that they had to clean out the mud from their house so I can imagine it was getting really tiring! Anyway, it was a good day, we felt like we actually got to do something that we could SEE the difference! It was sweet!

Prayers are needed...

Hello again,
I am overcome with emotion. Today we had school, which we really shouldnt´of because the governmetn told everyone not to because of the floods. But anyway, we got to school, I taught one class, it was going well. My kids were being EXTRA loving and I thought to myself ¨today will be a good day!¨ Well not so much, soon after Ms. Jessie came in and told me that the bridge was about to break so the kids who were going to La Paz had to leave RIGHT then. So they were frantically getting their stuff into their bags and one of my girls, Shellsea, looked up at me and said, with tears inher eyes, ¨Miss, I don´t want to leave you!¨ She was afraid that maybe she wouldn´t see me again. I´m sure that the bus made it over the bridge safely, although I haven´t heard yet. She brought tears to my eyes. I love these kids, I realized that today the most.
I think about the families who have lost their homes, lost loved ones, my heart aches for them.
Kasey (my brother) died on November 7, 1999. It´s coming up, I already have thought about how hard it is going to be to be away from home, away from the cemetary, and away from my mom. Every year I go to the cemetary, to just remember him. BUt not this year. I am thousands of miles away. I´m keeping my head held high though, I know that this is where God wants me. I´m here for a reason. We´re going to go out and help the people who will lose their homes. I say WILL because they have to let the Dam open if it gets to full, so it won´t break... they already have let it down a few times, and caused people in Comayagua to lose their homes. They will do it again today or tomorrow, as it keeps raining. We will go out to help then.
Keep the people on Honduras in your prayers. Please.
ANd keep the seven of us, in your prayers as well.
Thanks so much!

Rain Rain Rain

It's raining! it has been raining for the past 36 hours... STRAIGHT! We are crossing our fingers that tomorrow will be a "rain day"... yes that's right... they don't have SNOW days.. But the river is flooding so if it rains all night, then we might not have school tomorrow. We're all crossing our fingers... It's been a long week. BUT I HAVE A STORY! Today I was in the middle of 2nd grade math and my kids started going crazy. i couldn't understand why though because THAT class is normally pretty good. My classroom is right next to the front entrance and I looked out and noticed a white guy with long hair. WOW A WHITE GUY I thought to myself... I asked my kids who it was, since they obviously thought he was some kind of celebrity and they all chanted in unison "It's Diduch!!!" Ok... i thought to myself... weird name.
It turns out he is a soccer player from Argentina that played for the Comayagua team but got injured so he hasn't been here for a while. His little boy attended our school when he was here before and now I gues she is starting back at our school on Monday. A FAMOUS KID! Super cute blonde kid. Oh yes, and funny thing, you see a Gringo (white man) and assume they know English... bahahaha.... he didn't speak any English.
So that is my story for today... I hope you enjoyed. =)

Updates!

Man, I need to get better about updating this thing! Things are going well. This weekend was a long weekend so it was super good to get to relax and rejuvenate. We had a ¨sleepover¨on Sunday night. We all slept on the floor in the other house. It was so fun. Before that we got the priviledge of being excourted from our house to the other house for our tradition of an Agape feast. Sunday marked 8 weeks of us being In Honduras. CRAZY! We all sat around on the floor and had tons of fruit and top ramen. A little tradition we started.... Bethani read out of Thessalonians and we talked about life. I really love this group of girls. I don´t know what I´d do without them. Each of them brings somethin awesome to our group. I´m so lucky to have them. I miss back home, especially last thursday when i got to skype with my mom and there were tons f people at my house for THe office... my house is full... and i´m not home... weird. I´ll be ok though. I know I´m supposed to be here!
>Till next time'

Here We Go... One more Time...

BAHAHA! Today is another day at school. A very good day actually. I will write and tell you about my not so good day though. On Friday was Parent Teacher conferences. In the short version, it wasn´t so wonderful. I was sitting in the room and parents start coming in and so I am surrounded by 10 parents. All of which are very angry that their kids aren´t doing better... which I can understand...but in order to do well in school, you must do your homework, WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! Anyway, so I guess culture shock set in a little..... Today is Tuesday and It is a good day! My kids are listening, and they are actually learning something! YAY! I AM ACTUALLY GETTING THROUGH TO THEM! Well... at least I THINK I am! College is back in full swing, I´m sorry for those of you who are in school. I am too if it makes you feel any better... and to compare GOING to school and TEACHING school.... I might have to say that Teaching is just as difficult if not more. But in completely different ways. We have spent some time checking out the MASK. We are all still a part of it, so don´t forget to look us up!
Have a wonderful day! Keep PRAYING! Stay Tuned....

It´s been awhile!

I haven´t posted in a while! There is so much I could say! First of all i will start with telling you about our first excursion. We decided that it was time to get out of the city and go see something green. We decided last Wednesday that on Friday we were going to go to this national park that we found in the lonely planet book. So on friday we met at school and then walked to the bus station. The bus station is quite ghetto and is basically a table with a man sitting there who sells you tickets. Then you get into a bus, which is quite sketchy and head off. We got let off at a town called La Guama and it was dark. We had forgotten the lonely planet book so we were getting a little scared about where we were going to find a ride to take us up the hill to the national park. But God always provides. As soon as we got off there was a van that was going up the hill so we all piled in and they took us to the entrance of the national park. We then were expecting to have rooms to stay in but they said that they were full. Uh Oh, It´s pouring down rain and we just traveled to get here. Luckily they had a big conference style room that had 20 bunk beds. THey gave us a cheaper price and we stayed there. It was awesome. All around us was jungle and beautiful green trees and plants. THe next day we got up and started on our hike up the mountain., We hiked for 5 hours and stopped along the way to get in waterfalls. The water was crystal clear and we had a blast. Our little vacation only cost us $15.00. You can travel super cheap here! It was so good for us to get away from Comayagua for awhile. We can´t wait to go on our next adventure!! Please keep praying for us, we have our first parent teacher conferences on Friday., We are all scrambling to get our grades done!! Which by the way we have grade books in Spanish and basically they didnt´give us any instruction... So i made it up! =)

WEEK TWO!

So here I am, I have survived one full week of school and I am now on Day two of my second week. The kids have finally stopped screaming because basically I yell enough for the both of us. Most of the time I can´t hear myself think. But today and yesterday have been much better. My week only gets harder though. We are hoping to go to a national park this weekend. We´d like to get away. The city is ok, but we are surrounded my mountains which seem JUST out of our reach. We want to get away for a while. This Sunday will be a month since we´ve been gone. It seems slow, but also the days go by so fast. I Hope that youare keeping us in your prayers. We need prayer. An interesting story.... Ï don´t know. I can´t really think of one right now. Oh, yes, here´s one. The other day one of my 7th graders was dancing and wouldn´t sit down so I finally stopped teaching, looked at him and held my hands over my eyes saying ¨STOP DANCING, YOU ARE HURTING MY EYES.... WATCHING YOU TRY AND DANCE!¨Little to say the kid stopped dancing. Sometimes you have to be straight foreward. It´s crazy how awful they write down here. But I enjoy giving my 7th graders a journal question everyday and I get to TRY and read their responses. They tell me about how mean the other kids are and how they feel bad about it. It´s sad but I feel like maybe I can start to reach one of them.. If all I do is reach ONE kid... then I´m happy... I pray that God will give me the chance...

It's almost friday!

This week has been so hard. My kids are kind of crazy and I am feeling like I can't control them. Hopefully it will get better. I know it will. Please pray for us.

First Day of School!

So today was our first day of school! It was crazy fun! I have two separate classes of 2nd grade but we combined them today and I brought a blow up globe from home (Kristen gave it to me =) and so we played the name game with that and then we played bear, man, gun game... it was super fun and the kids loved it. I got a sticker and a gorgeous picture of a house drawn for me. We had a birthday party for the Pastor today and we had cake that was so weird! lol. And ice cream that had raisins in it and it tastes carbonated. Weird. And banana pop. hmm... I dunno... I'm super excited about ti though. I only have a few boys that I think will be a little difficult. Can't wait!

ALMOST SCHOOL TIME!

So my computer crashed and is no longer working. This is slightly upsetting to me but I am trying to remember that I will be fine without it. Some of the other girls have computers so I will be using there's I guess. Kind of annoying. Well we have been decorating all week and sightseeing on the side. We have walked this town up and down and still haven't even covered more than a sliver! The girls and I have started doing this thing at worship every night where we put in questions in a cup and draw one out for all of us to answer every night. it's really fun, we have talked about a lot of deep stuff and have been growing together in awesome ways. I'm so glad to have them. We start school tomorrow and I'm so scared! It's going to be crazy! I have to memorize 60 kids names. I am so bad with names... considering taking a picture of each one of them. lol. Maybe not, I dunno. Keep praying, we all need it! Oh yes, Rice and Beans are our staple food, we eat them almost everyday. Yesterday I got a bad stomach ache then last night I woke up to this rain that was SO LOUD. Then here is a little story for you: I was laying there with my stomach feeling as though someone just punched it and the rain was falling and being so loud. I was thinking about how there was going to be UGE spiders on the walls because they were all going to come inside to get away from the flood but then all the sudden there was the loudest thunder I have ever heard in my life and it scared me so bad! I jumped out of bed and ran in place and then Heidi was awake so I jumped into bed with her. it was utterly hilarious. She did a replay for me and told me I lookked like a hamster on a wheel. lol. Good times.

Friday is here

Wow we have so much to do! Our yearly plans have to be done by Monday as well as our 2 week detailed plan. And all the decorations for the classroom. I realized today that I can draw sheep. Haha. You learn new things everyday! God is so good. All of us girls get together every night and last night was a particularly good night. We are all there for each other and it´s so comforting. We all want the same thing.. and that is to serve God. That´s why we´re here. It is going to be tough for sure, but so rewarding. Something I won´t ever wish I didn´t do. I can´t wait to start school and get this teaching thing going... send us anything! lol.

Let´s get it started....

Today we found out what we are teaching for sure and I am teaching 2nd grade Bible, Science, and Math and then 7th grade literature. So I am completely in over my head but I´m super excited! Once we get started it shouldn´t be too bad but we all need to make a whole overview of what we want to do week by week for the year for each class and that task is daunting. I can´t wait to get all this underway!

My address!

My address is
Kandice Bolster
c/o Esquela Maranatha
P.O. Box 322
Comayagua, Comayagua, Honduras

I made it here alive and I´m safe and sound! We had a storm last night which was so cool! It rains buckets here! They call it hombre rain because it is huge drops. We have been in orientation to try and learn h ow to teach. I still don´t know how. God is with us and it has been so much fun to have our own little house which we have killed a total of 13 cockroaches at this point. I love them. Not. We all need prayers as we are figuring out what we are teaching and trying to plan lesson plans. We really have no idea what we are doing. I´m so excited to see what God has in store for me. I´m trying to see why I was picked to do this job because I feel so completely inadequate. I am. But I know that with God I can become a little more adequate. I can´t explain how weird it is to think about 10 months. That is a long time. I can do it. God will help me. Please keep us all in your prayers... Heidi, Sasha, Bethani, Kristin, Kayla, Andrea. We need prayers big time. Have a good day!