My House

Here are pictures of my casa. Sorry it has taken forever to put them up here. Enjoy!

Veranda, this is my favorite place to spend time with the Father. This is wear we hang out clothes out to dry too.

hee.... hee... all of our sand dollars getting dried out

view of our street from the office balcony

View from the balcony... be jealous! HA!

Mine and Tenisha's room

Mine and Tenisha's bathrom

Dining room

Living room

Kitchen

Supply room and Amanda's office

Office--- where we spend most of our time.

Cisco and Pastillito Making and Paper Chain

Letting Cisco win at UNO!

Stuffing

ooo a pretty one!!

the finished products

Teni's paper chain!!

Uh... I´ve got nothing

I didn´t stay at the school today. I´m waiting to meet with the teachers until another lady that works part time for Signs of Love can be there. So hopefully next week if not then I guess God just has different plans and I´m ok with that.

I wanted to save money so instead of going all the way back home and having to get back out to Tenisha´s school I just stayed in that neighborhood. I walked the block to the Dunkin Donut and sat there a couple of hours journaling and reading Chasing Daylight, I highly recommend it to you. And if I´m recommending a book it HAS to be good! ha! After reading a while I walked about 5 or so blocks to the mall and bought a few groceries and then went into a clothing store to check out if they had anything cute. But it was all way to expensive so I left very cheaply. I think I´m going to stick to the cheap clothing stores it cheap and cute stuff so I´m sure me and Tenisha will be going there next week or something.

We tried the bus again and did good until we got to changing part where we waited and waited and then got on the wrong bus and finally gave up and just paid for the taxi. What an adventure! We had our normal routine this afternoon of tutoring. I made the rest of the pastillitos. Played some uno. She´s in bed and I´m about to do some paper work for school and then go to bed.

Going to School on the Bus

Ok, so we didn´t exactly go to school on the buses but we did come home on them. I had been planning on trying out the bus system here because it is 15 lmps cheaper per person than going in a taxi and is just as efficent. But I haven´t had the chance to go with a person that would know the system. So today being my first day at the school--- more on that later--- and this is the day Amanda works there I figured it would be the best. I think I´m going to like it. It is very doable and cost me and Tenisha half what it would cost in the taxi. I think that is going to be our afternoon ride.

The school was interesting to say the least. I was just planning on observing and see what I really needed to do to help the teachers the rest of this week. So I went unprepared of course that would happen. But the teacher who teaches the younger kids had to fill in for another class so I had two of them all by myself until break time when Amanda came to help me out. I had NO idea what to teach them but saw that it is going to take a LOT of organization-- I´ve got that one down-- and repetition for them to grasp the idea. I just didn´t feel super comfortable around either one of the teachers. I´m sure they partically fill like I´m ¨spying¨since Tenisha is in there and they both just got introuble for not teaching and then a young American prances in with actual lesson plans... yea I know what they´re thinking. The gringa wants to take over. Please be in prayer for this opportunity and for these teachers to be open and willing to accept my help and any advice I can give. I´m not giving up instead I´m stepping up to the challenge.

Tenisha has been good this afternoon we had a 2 hour tutor session and she´s got 1-100 down and adding so we´re going to step up the math stuff. We made a paper chain today to incorporate her counting skills. It is tracking when Robin will be back, the day Tenisha turns 12 and the day before I leave. It´s all very exciting. I´m not so sure she has the concept of it down yet but I´m sure after a couple of days she will understand a little better. We´re working on words... that is going to be the most difficult but I think she´ll be ok.

Overall things are going very well and yes I learned how to make the pastillitos so I will be making those when I come back to the states in 36 days. Seems crazy! Thanks again for all you have done in my life and for this adventure. Keep Praying! 1

Robin´s Last Day!

Got to relaxish today. Robin ran a ton of errands and I got to be apart of some of them. Nothing major to report. So this will be short. I´m excited to start this adventure with just Teni. It´s going to be fun!

I´m suppose to learn how to make pastillitos tonight but Dr. C hasn´t shown up yet so I´m not sure if its actually going to happen tonight or not. We´re just waiting like we always do here in Honduras. Ha!

Ok well I´ll have more updates later. Love to you all!

What Goes up...

MUST come down...

Robin with Tenisha on the handle bars and I rode our bikes up into the jungle this morning before church and swam in the river. It was a crazy ride up on the gravel road. It took us about 35 or 40 mintues to get to the spot we wanted to swim in. My legs were hating me when we got there but the swim was so great and relaxing. We left at 1130 and had to be back at the house and cleaned up by 1230 for deaf church. We only have one shower working at the moment because the water pump went out and the others have not pressure. We BOOKED it home and got back in 25 mintues. My legs and whole body were hating me at this point.

But oh what a wonderful lesson was learned. Life is like riding a bike. Ha! It´s not easy to get to the mountain top times we have to work to get there but what goes up must come down so in life w ewill always expirence the ups and downs and getting back up from being down isn´t going to be very easy. Just like riding that bike up the mountain, we have to work to get to the top. But God will give us the strength to push ourselves up the mountain. When you go down it´s normally not at a fun part in our lives. However, we all know that on a bike we live for the down times. We´ve got to remember that what goes up... must come down... so we can´t always think we´re going to live on the mountain top expirences we must expect to hit a valley. But in life we must live for those down times and know that they will come someday. It´s all about how we live for those downtimes. Just like on a bike when we can see the ride down coming, we should just get as excited and prepared for the down times in life as we do on a bike. During that time riding down we must remember that God is guiding us down the mountain. And just like we feel the breeze against our face on the bike we can feel God´s loving arms around us carrying us through those downtimes.

After church Robin took me to this place she has been telling me about to get a massage. It was AMAZING and cheap so you can´t beat it. Tenisha counted to 100 while we were in there. We left her in the waiting room with the dry erase board and came out and a perfect 1-100 was written out. It was INCREDIBLE! We´ll have to see if she can keep that up!

We had a Honduras hotdog tonight. I had to specify because they are not made like they are in America. They come with a wenie (duh), a roll for a bun, covered with mustard, mayo, and ketchup, then topped with purple onions. I was a little iffy at first but it was really tasty and my girl Teni and I will be eating them again. One side note, they came with orange juice.

Now, I´m finally relaxing. Robin is packing and getting stuff together. It seems nuts that she is leaving already on TUESDAY! Eck! I´m excited for the adventures. Thanks for your continued prayers!

Special Occasions

Slept in this morning and then got to spend so much needed quality time with the Father. Read in my quiet time book how we all have different gifts and since each day is a special occasion we need to use our gifts to their fullest everyday. I really needed that this morning.

I´m currently in a country where I am surrounded with the opportunity to use my gift of sign language and organzation to help get things done and accomplished. But it is also so hard to get distracted, trying to figure out what needs to be done from day to day and thinking I only have a month and a week left before I come home. Which is extremely crazy to even begin to think about... there is going to be so much stuff to get down and SO many people to see and share with and well the lists goes on and you can imagine how easily it would be to get distracted.

But things are semi- organized for a daily routine when Tuesday comes around and Tenisha and I start out on our adventure. I´m really excited and know that God has such BIG plans for this time. I´ve been jamming out to KSBJ today. It´s been straight praise and worship and there have been so many great songs... of course... but specifically about letting the whole world see! It´s going to me an amazing next 5 weeks!

Be in Prayer over them as I know you will be. Thanks again so much for all of your encouragement and prayers they are felt! Love You All!