What a long day and a half! I invite you to join me on an introductory tour of Honduras; click the first photo below to view larger images and captions for each.
This is the first blog I am writing in "real time", as we are finally settled with our hosts in Seguatepeque. After a delicious dinner outside on the back patio, the boys are tucked in and sleeping, and I am almost tucked in too, but not before uploading a few photos from the past several hours... What a long day and a half! I invite you to join me on an introductory tour of Honduras; click the first photo below to view larger images and captions for each. Stay tuned tomorrow for a visit to the market, church in Honduras, and our visit to the Children's Home (orphanage) to drop off some donated toys and letters from a grade two class in Peel....
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So much for heading to the beach! The weather was lousy, and our 2.5 hour layover turned into a 1.75 hour scramble from one end of the airport to the other, and then back again!
Upon arrival at the airport, we decided to go for a nice leisurely lunch (it was still breakfast time, really, but having been up for 7 hours already, we were famished), so we found SUN! Glorious sun! After so many hours in the dark (we were up before 3 a.m. this morning), it was a welcome reward to open the window blind and discover the bright, bright day smiling in on us. Being above the clouds is a special treat, and I am enjoying a gaze outside the window every now and again to delight in the various small wisps of white that float many thousands of feet below us over the ocean.
The boys, sadly, did NOT sleep on the plane, as they were consumed with Valentine’s Day Cards, which they were writing for their classmates back home. Their preoccupation with But just barely; apparently our snack bag of cut up peppers and cucumbers is considered a dangerous item--we were taken into a separate screening room and questioned! :P Just about to board first plane now...
Here is the first of several Honduras-related posts (assuming I am successful in finding internet en route)!
It is 3:17 a.m., and we're almost off. Despite an emergency visit to a dentist with Twin A late last night, and the subsequent two measly hours of sleep, we (Trevor and I) somehow managed to hear the alarm this morning at 2:50 a.m., hehe. The boys are still sleeping while we do some last minute packing and bring the car 'round. Alex has been cleared to go on the trip, but requires liquid medication that needs to be refrigerated!!!! YES!!!! Start praying now, please, for decent attendents at airport security, and for tolerance and patience on my part, so that I don't LOSE it on anyone when we have to start explaining our reams of troublesome luggage (we are not checking any bags, so we need to get through US security with some fairly strange items, including now a bottle of liquids - meds - and ice packs to keep it cool)! With any luck, sleep with find us on one of the two plane trips this today, or at worst, the 2-hour truck ride through the mountains at the other end (though I'd hate to miss that first glimpse of our home country from the next five days). Until Pt II, signing off, tired but excited.... So, Simon's red dots, whatever they were, seem to have subsided. Unfortunately, we discovered a red bump on Alex's upper gums last night. What is THAT??!! With any luck, a trip to the dentist can be squeezed in this afternoon, and the poor boy (who appears to have no related pain) can still join me on our educational adventure tomorrow morning!
There's nothing quite like 59 recorders playing "Hot Cross Buns" in unison, lol!
Teaching music today with my pre-service teacher candidates at the University reminded me of the gifts we can impart to our students. As Babatunde often said, "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." I will have to add some music stuff to the teacher section of this site... in the meantime, enjoy this gift from one of my student teachers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pehz98Vygs I had the privilege of working with a student this morning who just arrived in Canada last week. "No English", this six-year-old told me, as she waved her hand dismissively at my
May I suggest that if your job and/or family situation requires you to get up at 6 a.m., then staying up until well past midnight the night before to read and respond to a lengthy email while surfing Youtube may not be the best choice in the world!!! :P
Yesterday I emailed snippets of my math handout for an upcoming workshop to a colleague in Honduras, and this morning I rec'd a translation from Spanish to English, which I will cut and paste into my handout, making it more practical for the teacher participants next week, most of whom speak exclusively Spanish.
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About Vera...After writing for several teacher and multiple birth publications, including ETFO's Voice Magazine, Multiple Moments, and the Bulletwin, Vera turned her written attention to prolific blogging for some years, including BiB, "Learn to Fly with Vera!" and SMARTbansho . Homeschooling 4 was her travel blog in Argentina. She now spends more time on her Instagram (@schalgzeug_usw) than her blog (pictures are worth a thousand words?!)
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