Serttling Back In

So, it´s been a pretty good first week, all in all, actually it´s been fantastic. I am so much more suited to seconary teaching than primary and my job is so much less stressful beacuase of it! On top of that, my room looks less like an animal hovel and more like a bedroom now and the weather has been perfectly breezy all week.
The only downer was that my partner left to El Salvador on Saturay morning, due home on Sunday; that was until she lost her passport and wasn´t allowed to leave the country. In some ways though this is a relief, now I am safe in the knowledge that at least I´m not the only disaster case. I´m currently in a bit of a limbo to see if she´ll make it back by next week, if not I´ll be covering all her classes again next week.
So, despite the fact that the subject I am teaching is dry as anything I have ever had the misfortune to have to read, I am much happier teaching ´Collegio´ upstairs than I was downstairs. I am not joking whe I say it is dry, eveything I teach to them I have to learn myself beforehand, and to me it all seems like useless knowledge, if such a thing exists. (Primary school is on the bottom floor from 12 - 5 and secondary school is upstairs from 7 - 2, so early rises for me! It´s nice doing that though, I feel as if I am actually acomplishing something with my day, and it means I can go to the beach in the afternoons.) I´ve developed a bit of a routine now; every break I go down and cht to Mauricio as he sells his food in the Cafeteria and help him out and in my afternoons I take my bike and walk Genesis home from school and get Vasitos on the way (little ice creamy things).
The day Sarah left was the day of the dance competition and, once I figure out how, I will put up some hilarious videos of the kids dancing. This was part of their PE exam and they had to dance either Danza Christiana or Moderna. Very, very different dance forms I tell you. The juxtoposition was hilarious. You had some kids dancing to lyrics like 'Jesus is my superhero´and the next group´s soundtrack would be ´I´m Sexy and I Know It´. And the costumes some of them wore! It´s seriously disconcerting watching 9 year olds hip thrusting. However I must be getting used to the culture: I didn´t even bat an eye when the show that was due to start at seven didn´t get going until half eight and was pleasantly surprised when I got away only an hour after we were supposed to. (Hondurans aren´t the best time-keepers you see.) The two finalists did their dances again at the very end, weating away in the midday sun and I felt truly sorry for them, I think their feet were burnt by the end. So there was food and drink and dancing and prizes and, all in all, a fun way to start the weekend. I even made guacamole which was a (partial) success. It went slightly black since and weird I had made it the night before but it wasn´t a danger to eat. I hope.
The rest of the weekend was more relaxed, I went to the beach ( the Caribbean beach... that is on my doorstep. Yes, I know you´re jealous.) I got burnt, read my book, met up with my friend, rode a horse (not everyone here is poor, I´ll have you know, some people have enough money for two cars and a horse). So it was like that my first weekend in Honduras drew to a close and my first working week began.