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| Our first soccer game in Honduras! |
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| Team Olimpia |
Our trip to Tegucigalpa was a really great time, and I’d love to share about it with you-enjoy!
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| Apple cobbler---YUM |
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| Jaime and I at dinner |
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| Our Christmas hats that light up! |
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| Soccer Stadium |
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| Furniture store in the mall--first time on a nice couch since we've been here--amazing! |
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| All dressed up for Thanksgiving! |
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| Tegucigalpa |
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| Our beautiful Thanksgiving dinner! |
We left early Wednesday morning with some of the 10th and 11th graders at our school. They were heading to Tegucigalpa for the jazz concert we attended that night at our Abundant Life School there. It took us about 7ish hours to get there, and it very crammed and uncomfortable in our bus and very noisy too. The jazz concert that night was a lot of fun with the students. I was very tired from the trip and the music was almost too relaxing, as I almost fell asleep a number of times. But still, it was a fun night! The next morning all the students left and it was just our group of teachers from Gracias in town so we went to the mall for a bit, which had a Wal-Mart—crazy! It felt like we were in the states again, which was a nice feeling. Eventually all the other American teachers got into town and we all started getting ready for our big Thanksgiving dinner that we were going to have at Pastor Evelio’s house. The dinner was absolutely beautiful and the food was delicious. It was really great to spend the holiday together as the little Honduran family we have all become. The next morning we got breakfast at McDonald’s and then went to Valley de Angeles, which was a small touristy area with lots of souvenirs to buy. For dinner we went to a nice sushi place and then to the mall for a movie, which turned into all of us going to see the latest Twilight movie, since that was the only movie playing in all four theaters. It wasn’t the best movie, but it was nice to go to the movies again! The next morning some of us went on a hike to La Tigra, which was really nice! We reached a clearing at one point where the clouds were below us and just rising over the mountain—the cloud forests always amaze me! That night we had pizza at the hotel and then we headed out to what turned into my favorite event of our trip—the Tegucigalpa Olimpia soccer game. It was so much fun going to the big stadium, singing along with the chants that our friend Jean was teaching us, and watching the game. We left early Sunday morning and played Christmas songs over the ipod speakers in the bus and sang along to our favorite songs. Overall, our trip was filled with fun adventures and was just the refresher all of us teachers needed, and for that we are all so thankful!
It surely is the most wonderful time of the year!!! Christmas music has been playing in our house since we have gotten back. I even bought a Christmas hat in Wal-mart that says Feliz Navidad and has stars that light up, and I can’t help but put it on at times. It’s exciting to sing “I’ll be home for Christmas…” in less than 3 weeks!!!!
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