Pics from the summer

Well I survived my first day of school for the second time. I was really nervous to see all the kids again but it was really fun to see them again. Feels so wierd to have them here again but a grade older. My classes so far (3 of them) went well but tomorrow is going to be a long morning because I have 4, 50 min classes. EEEEKKK! I'm sure I'll find something fun to keep them etertained if we finish early. My schedule for the rest of my classes has been continually changing, hopefully it will be permanantly fixed so that I don't have one class twice a day with a lunch break in between! I am very glad to have all my classes split this year so that they are more manageable. Most of my classes range between 9 and 13 students right now. May pose a bit of a challenge when we do larger group sports but until then I will enjoy it.

I have put in a number of pics from this summer that I haven't put up on my ofoto album as I haven't gotten around to that yet. They are kinda random but I love em so that makes it ok!
This is dad, sam and me going for my last cruise around skookum lake for another year. Sniff Sniff :(

GRRRR I just spent the entire night putting on pics to share and wrote about them and everything and now its all GONE!!! Enough to make you want to throw your computer!! neways I'm heading to bed maybe i'll try again tomorrow.

gnite
~Heidi 8(~

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Thursday, August 11, 2005
So this is the mighty come back of Heidi's blog site. Yes it has had a minor, well major break since the last time I wrote but I am going to try to keep a better record of my adventures down here in Honduras. I hope this will be easier for everyone to check, as it will be easier then trying to email everyone.
I did arrive back here safe and sound with a fairly uneventful trip, I did however get to see the crashed plane at the end of the Pearson runway. Very crazy to see that as you are flying by in another plane. Wish I had my camera hand but I didn't so no pics to share with you from the flight. It is strange, as I was really not looking forward to coming back because I didn't feel I was ready to come back (ie. very much enjoyed being home for the summer), but as I was landing in Teguc and then headed up the mountain I began to feel excited about being back. It was almost like a camp reunion coming back here, seeing everyone again, and then meeting all the new teachers too. Once again the God has brought together an amazing group of teacher to minister to these students and I am excited to see what He has in store for this new year.
This week has been full of meetings and getting to know everyone, and next week will be a lot of prep work getting things organized for the first couple weeks of school. Kyle Webb(new boys PE) and I have had some time to chat and get to know each other and I believe we are going to have a good year, an adventerous one, but a good one. This is his first year teaching and my second so we will help each other keep these kids in line and in shape .
We had our first ultimate frisbee game today and it is going to be a VERY good year for sports among the teachers. Lots of interest and participation so I'm excited.
Well it is time for bed now so I will write more later. Hope all is well with everyone.
Heidi

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Valle Adventure

Well today was a very nice day for a trip to Valle De Angeles. Thankfully this time we took two buses because we were very packed on our grocery trip yesterday. This is an annual trip at the beginning of the year, so the new teachers can do a little Honduran shopping (hammoks, chairs, tables, little trinkets) all the necessities to survive here. This is our new roommate picture, myself, amy, trina our new roommate and melodee. We have a very fun appartment and I am looking forward to this year.



We did not have a very expensive Valle trip this time, as our only purchase was some awsome retro beads that hang in the doorway. We now have them on each side of the appartment, making some sweet noice everytime you walk throught them. HAHA I am sure that in time, like a day or 2 we will tie them back but until then its fun to walk through them. Since we have been to Valle a couple times we took Kyle (new boys PE teacher) under our wing and showed him around. He has some larger purchases to make (Coffee table, end tables, hammok chair, etc) so we helped him find and carry them around. Once we got home he immediately hooked up the chair, which he was not happy with, but I think it will grow on him, especially after it gets a little stretched out.


We ended up having Joseph and Kyle over for supper tonight...I don't think they'd ever pass down food! Kara and Chris also came over and critically examined our art work. Then we watched a movie. I'd say this day was action packed.

I also got some interesting news today from my principal. He informed me of my schedule, which is not sometime I am looking forward to. I am definately going to have a challenging year again, especially when I have half my gr 12's and 10's at the same time twice a week and then that same gr 12 half together with the other gr 12's once a week. Oh I am going to need to be on my toes all the time, with some creative ideas, especially on rainy days!!!

Neways thankyou all for your prayers as I need them and am really going to need them come thur next week when classes actually start. Hope you all are doing well.

God Bless
Heidi 8)

oh p.s. here is a picture I took as we were coming around to land in the Teguc airport. You can see the runway right in the middle of the picture near the top. Yes that is the WHOLE runway in the picture, makes for a rather bumpy and quick landing.

My First Blog

This is my first ramblings on my blog that Amy is helping me create. We just got home from a 6 hour market/dinner/grocery trip on the bus. Hopefully this is not something that will continue to take so long or we may go hungry this year as being on a bus for that long is just not cool. Neways this is not going to be long tonight, just to make my frist post and see how it works.