Today I graduated from the CASS, Central American Spanish School! Every Friday the school has cake and hands out the diplomas to the students who will be moving on. A good majority of the other students are volunteers at various projects in Honduras as well. I was a bit late for my class this morning because I went out with my current roommate who is from Finland. It is her Birthday today, she is turning 21, and so we decided for her Birthday and my last Thursday in Ceiba we would go out. Thursday is ladies night here in Ceiba so all girls get into the club Casona for free and drinks are free as well. We had a blast dancing, the 5 of us white girls, and got home around 3. The club is awesome! There are 3 floors for dancing, it has open ventilation, plays great music and the downstairs is a karaoke bar, KIM!!! A cab ride is about $1, 20 lempiras, beer is about $1.50 or 30 lempiras... It was a really good time. Oh and on all the floors are about 5 guys standing with HUGE guns... All over Honduras actually... Are men with huge guns, armed guards.
This weekend I move to the orphanage. I am really excited about that, but I have become fond of my host family and with other students so I am also a bit sad. I went to the orphanage this past Wednesday to go over how the classes are ran, meet the kids, and plan schedules with the other volunteers. I will either be teaching 2nd grade or 1st grade. I am routing for first grade because the class size is smaller, and I don’t think my Spanish is ready for teaching 2nd grade yet... But we shall see.
Batman comes out here this weekend! There is a movie theatre in Ceiba and it is $2 or 40 lempiras. All the volunteers come into Ceiba on the weekends to watch movies and help pass time. I have seen Hancock and Walle, Hancock was in English with subtitles in Spanish and Walle was dubbed in Spanish.
Ok I am off to my home stay to eat lunch and take a nap. We were all going to head to the river, the 4 other girl volunteers and I, but it is raining today! I feel like I am back in Portland.
Once I am at the orphanage I will only be able to jump on a computer when I trek back to Ceiba so probably once or twice a week.
I hope all is well back home.
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3 comments:
Congrats on graduating Mary! I love your posts, I feel like I have just talked to you on the phone with how descriptive your blogs are. Looking forward to hearing about your first week at the orphanage. I am going to be in Oregon picking berries, I will miss not being able to meet up! Love ya.
Glad to hear that you graduated! I will miss reading your blog, but I guess I only remember to check it about once a week anyway, so I just hope I will time things right. You missed out on some really great weather...we haven't had rain in over 2 weeks...maybe longer...weather here has been pleasant...sometime darn-right HOT!
Miss you a bunch, keep up the good work! Can't wait for the next blog! Luv u!
Sounds like there is much there to feed your senses and some things that make your heart sore.
Your blog is great...I think you should turn it into a journal and publish!
Have fun sweetie....
Nancy
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