our daily schedule

This week has been pretty busy as we've been giving a lot of tests. We have to write our own, collect money from the kids (1 lempira for one page), and then go and get them printed. It's quite a process, but we're getting pretty good at it.

Anyhow, I have a lot of blogs to write with pictures. But, I figured since I haven't written any blog in over a week, I ought to write something.

Our weekday schedule looks a little something like this:

5:30am - wake up and take a shower if the water is working

6:30am - leave the apartment and walk to school

6:45am - arrive at school, sign in, and get ready for class

7:00am - class begins, each being 40 minutes long with a 20 minute recess at 9am

12:00pm - Lunch. So far, it's been mostly cup o' noodles sold for 10 lemps (or $0.50) or pupusas for the same (we just have to walk to get those...)

2:00pm - Anywhere between 1:30 and 2:30 is when we leave for the day. Though our classes generally end at noon, we stick around to do some grading and help students if they want it

2:30pm - return home, hang out, check facebook, blog, play games, research

5:00pm - Dinner. The cup of noodles has worn off and we need some more food... usually another cup of noodles.

5:30pm - watch a show or movie before bed

7:30pm - start getting ready for bed

8:00pm - bed

Then we do it all over the next day. The weekend is a bit different as it varies from week to week. Generally, if we're in town, we try to go to the market (something that will become a priority as we start collecting necessary utensils for cooking), eat at someone's house (usually Doña Olga's house... gooooood food!), and hang out, sleep, do laundry and wait for it to dry. 

We've got 4 weeks of school down and 5 weeks left of this partial. Alex and I are calculating mid-term grades (though it wasn't expected of us) so that the students know where they stand in class. Not going to lie, a lot of them are not meeting our expectations. We'll see what happens after we have a meeting with their parents next week. 

Well, we've got to be off to the market now that it's not raining. I will hopefully post some new sweet blogs this week with tons of pictures from the beach, Honduras' Independence Day, and our students' involvement with the festivities.