Once again taken down by a Parasite!!

Well once again my body was put through the unhappy war with a parasite stomach infection!! Not fun let me tell you. I spent wed nite tossing and turning and burning up with a fever of 102! so needless to say it was a very miserable nite and so were the next couple days. On thurs I ask Cosetta (principals wife) if she would be so kind as to take me down to the dr as I was still feeling pretty much like CRAP!! So she and Jayden (her son who has unending amounts of energy) took me down that afternoon. After a couple fun tests we finally made it back up the mountain and I was completely warn out! Rather crappy how when you are sick enough to warent going to the dr, you get completely drained of any energy you may of had by going through the whole process of "going to the dr in Honduras". neways long story short I have a stomach infection...well a parasite really that he thinks I probably got from a restaurant that we all went to on wed nite for Kara's birthday. I am a little skeptical about that b/c out of 10 people that went I was the only one that got sick and melodee and I even ate the same thing....apparently not all the food can be contaminated..but just little sections!! sign....oh well I have had a terrible weekend because of it but I am starting to feel a little better now. Think the major stomach pain I was having is finally gone...now if I could just stay out of the bathroom;( I did my best to not over do it last night as we were invited to a family's house from church. They made us a SWEET TOTALLY AWSOME turkey dinner!!!! oh man I did not want to cancel b/c they were making it b/c i mentioned how much i love them and don't get them here...so i figured i'd eat some mashed potatoes and veggies and bring left overs home. Well I did eat potatoes, green beans and tried a little turkey..which was amazing!!! and so was the gravy and stove top dressing, oh and pumpkin bread too. Adriana sent me home with a tupperware full of turkey, potatoes, beans and pumpkin bread so I could really enjoy it later when I was feeling much better. John also game me some pill that would help my "situation" and I think they really worked well...so I am very thankful for that.

Now that I am feeling a little better it is time to figure out what to do with my classes for the rest of the year. I missed school on thru and friday last week and thus also missed parent teacher conferences - tragic I know, I'm sure I will have conferences this week b/c of that. This is going to be a busy week as it is...b/c my v-ball girls have games on mon, wed and a tournament thur fri and possibly sat if we do well! Please keep our team and Jennifer and I as coaches in your prayers (sanity, patience and wisdom specificially).

I know I haven't written anything about our Panama Advenutres yet...but be assured they were TOALLY AMAZING!!!! I am working on an album of pictures with captions to help share our stories with you all. Amy has done an excellent job once again with summarizing our experiences so please check out her blog for more details (see side panal for link). One of my highlights from the trip forsure though was learning to surf!!! I am hooked now I just need to find a good surfing ocean to live near!
ok time to get some work done
more to come soon
Miss you all soo much!!
Heidi 8)

Big Decisions!!

Well once again..its amazing how fast a month can FLY by! Now almost a month since my last post and wow has it been full...just check out Amy's to find out just how crazy it has been. Full of retreats, family fun days, world fairs, and much more! I will try to put some pictures on, as I much prefer pics over a 1000 words ;)

So most recently our contracts came out and are well overdue now. I took the weekend to spend a little bit more time praying and tossing pros and cons around. I have not yet offically signed the contract but I am thinking that I will prolly stay for one last year. This has not been an easy decision BY FAR!! and I would still appreciate lots of prayer that this would be the right decision and for the year to come that it would be one filled with God's blessings, amazing experiences and opportunities. Amy is also staying for one more year so I'm sure she could use the same prayers. We have such a great "school family" down here. We really appareciate the support and encouragment we get from our principal and director. They are very approachable and always willing to listen and give insite into whatever the situation. Along with the friendships made it makes leaving this place very hard, even with knowing that I would then be that much closer to all my amazing friends and family at home who I miss SOOO MUCH!!! and who miss me I know ;)

So it is now offical...I have decided to sign my contract....tieing me in for another year down here in Honduras. I thought that as I have found myself sick once again :( that it might have something to do with the extra pressure I am putting on myself as I continue to put off making that so hard but final decision regarding next year. So I did it, along with taking the day off to try and get some rest, as for some strange reason I don't seem to get ANY rest while at school...who knows why! might just have something to do with the TYPE of class I teach! Hard to just sit and watch most of the time. So now that things are decided please continue to pray for peace about it...it is a happy but sad decision all at the same time :) :(

Alrighty well I shall attempt right now to put some pictures on so pray it goes smoothly or you won't get any til we get back from our Panama trip. Yes we leave for Panama on friday after school!! woo hoo so crazy I can't beleive it. Going to see the canal of course...and who knows what else...hoping to learn to surf!! Yes we'll have lots of pics when we get back have to make an album to send out...asap!
ok so here goes



This Eurobungy was so totally AWSOME!! I was so exhasuted after I got off. Think I may have done one too many flips heheh!! but it was totally worth it! Oh how I still want to be a gymnast or diver!

Christine posing at the fake mayan ruins at the Jesus Statue. We had a great time, her and I, clicking pics all around there! We are very creative photographers.

This is our fun group.... back to front left to right Joseph, Jen, Melodee, Amy, Christins, Kevin, Kyle and Me.

Melodee and myself looking out over the view under the archway.

Me just playing around on the light post. Kinda looked like a spot out of the movies.