I love weekends!!

It's not that I don't like being with my students or going to work 5 days a week because most of the time I really do, but no matter how great the week is, I am always looking forward to the weekend. I love having the free time to be with people and build relationships.

This weekend has been exceptionally great and it is only half over at this point. Right after school on Friday, we went to play soccer with the street boys. After a great time of play, feeding the boys, and washing their feet, we packed up and headed to Agafam (the Honduran version of a county fair). It was great! We ate great food, played some carnival games, threw a frisbee around, and rode the farris wheel. It was fantastic!

We got back kind of late so I was excited to sleep in today.....I guess I should learn that sleeping in here is just not ever going to happen. I woke up to a super loud pounding sound coming from our kitchen. I eerily crept out of my bed and into the living room, then peeked around the corner into the kitchen to see a man's hand reaching up under our door into our house. Needless to say I panicked a little bit and ran back into my room. I had no idea who this was but assumed they must be trying to break into our house. I ran into the bathroom and looked out our tiny little window to see the man hired by our landlord to make repairs to our house, standing on the platform attached to the back of our house with a sledgehammer and chisel, breaking away the cement underneath our kitchen door leading into the ally. I still have no idea what exactly his purpose was for breaking our wall, but now we have a nice hole under the door and more cement chunks keep falling off, so hopefully they have a brilliant plan to fix this little problem or the bugs are soon going to become even worse.

However, I didn't have long to worry about this issue because today is birthday-day and full of lots of birthday fun! :) This morning we went to celebrate our friend Jenna Miller's birthday (she works with Micah Project). She loves baseball so we went to a baseball field and had a kickball tournament with about 60 people. She even made team shirts for everyone to wear (my team was the Dodgers). It was so much fun seeing all of the Honduran boys trying to figure out this "baseball" form of soccer and hardly ever did I see them throw the ball when out in the field, they just kicked it all the time. I guess I just never came to the realization that not everyone knows how to play by baseball rules because we in North America just grow up knowing the game so I found it kind of funny that they even had to explain to these teenage boys how to run bases. (Sorry Travis, I know you will be a little disappointed by this).

Now it is time to go to the next birthday party for our friends Julie, Merideth, and Kaytie. We are going to go bowling and I have never been bowling in Honduras so it should be fun! Tomorrow will include church, frisbee with other teachers and some Micah boys at IST, and hopefully even a little afternoon nap if I'm lucky.

.....and this is why I love weekends :)