Life is full of surprises!

I think most of you know that whilst I was in England my 2 dogs escaped. Gumersindo upstairs left the gate open and they shot out - most likely looking for me! Anyway, Jaime and seemingly half of Sigua spent the next 2 days searching all day for them. But not to be found. This was just after Christmas, nearly 2 months ago! 2 nice looking black labradors would have been taken off the streets straight away so I'm guessing someone has them!

Anyway, today is the 14th year since mum died. I've been wishing I were at home with the family all day and feeling a long way away from family and friends. Suddenly G knocked on my door and he had a puppy for me! He had bought it to replace the dogs! How sweet. It is gorgeous, a German Shepherd cross. About 2 months and v cute. Her name is Sheba cos that was the name of the family dog we had when I was growing up. Will remind me a bit of mum. Now I haven't puppy proofed my house or garden so have no idea what to do with the thing - but it's cute!! Very thoughtful of him too. She is one of 9 puppies in her litter and so is very thin and you can feel her ribs but she'll fill out soon enough!

Ok.....so I wrote all that last night and then the internet crashed!! Last night this dog cried sooooo loudly the ENTIRE night. In the end I had her cage in my bedroom so she had company. Tonight, she will be like every other Honduran dog...outside!! This dog can cry!! When I go tback from football today my neighbours little boy (who had helped searched for Jezabel and Delilah) came out to tell me my dog was crying! The whole neighbourhood can hear it! Let's hope that stops soon enough!

I'm back!!!

OK, I'v not fallen off the face of the earth! Soooo sorry I haven't been writing this! I went home for Christmas and have been back in Honduras a month now. With Vacation Bible School up in the mountains, catching up with friends etc it was good to be back!
Cool started again this week. Apart from ridiculously early starts (I am not designed to wake up at 5,30am! it is good to be back at work again)
I promise I will start updating this properly from now on!! Please keep reading...

comin home for Christmas...

Tomorrow I leave the blue skies and blazing sunshine and head to cold, wet and windy England to have Christmas with the family....first time in what seems like years. I am soooo looking foward to eating roast beef and yorkshire puddings on Sunday... I hope you read this Dad!!

I'm so exhausted right now, here's hoping I sleep on the plane, I've been cleaning my house so much I almost want to stay as it's never been so clean! And this leaving lark is expensive, I've had to pay all my bills in advance, fill the house with food (unwritten rule for house sitters is you leave them with food!) and get everything washed and ready this end for Jaime to come and live here for a month - can't leave the place empty, and someone has to look after the dogs. It's not me house sitting for a change, I'm actually the one leaving!

So, that's it for now....tomorrow I start the epic journey back (with sweaters, coat, hat, scarf and gloves in my hand luggage!!)

Talent Show 2009

The day of the Talent Show finally arrived. Despite the fact 4 of the bigger churches in town couldn't come, we still had 300 young people turn up!! An amazing answer to prayer!!! It was a fantastic night, enjoyed by all. Everything went smoothly and it was excellent - and we managed to raise funds for the mission trip - the purpose for the whole thing! I was there for 14 hours making sure everything was ok, and we all had to tidy up afterwards!
When I finally got home at 11.30pm I then had to work on the Directory for church so I could hand everything over to Boris. By 1am it was done!!

So now all my commitments are completed. I spent today sorting my apartment out and tidying up, so tomorrow I can clean it all properly.

I am truly exhausted - but maybe it will mean I will sleep on the plane. I've had 3 different people offering to drive me to the airport....how lovely! In church, the Pastor thanked me for all my hard work on the Directory and prayed for my journey adn time at home - I really am a part of it all here now. I'm kind of sad to leave my friends, but looking forward to seeing everyone in UK. (I am still dreading the cold, it is sooooooo hot here!)

2 v different days!

On Wednesday to celebrate end of school, I went on a day trip to the beach with my fellow teachers. In less than 3 hours I drove to the Caribbean Sea, where upon I spent the entire day in the sea, then got back in my car and we drove home!! It's getting hot here again...I love the fact I can just drive to the Caribbean coast - not looking forward to English weather!

Today, however, I spent 12 hours in the Bible Seminary decorating and getting ready for the Talent Show tomorrow night - the thing I've been planning for months for the churches. Tomorrow will be another long day there and then it will be finally over!! Yay!

New President!

We have a new President = Pepe Lobo! Elections were amazingly peaceful, no violence, no curfews, no cut of electricity. More than 2 million Hondurans voted and Pepe won with 57% of the votes. This is the party that are normally stronger against crime, so good news in my book! Lets see what happens!

Election time!

So, I have finally found internet again, my computer has almost completely died now...and the mobile modem I pay monthly for no longer works on this computer. So, yet again more fun and adventures.....

On Tuesday I took Lorena's mum up to the hospital as she is sick and as we drove up the long hospital road I was following a very old pick-up truck, which clearly came from the village. As I looked again at the man sat in the back of the truck I realised he had no arm...not just no arm....it had been (as I found out later) shot off ...so it was a bloody mess at the shoulder blade where the arm once was! Not the pretties view to drive behind. He had come from a village about 45 minutes away and died as he arrived pretty much, poor guy.

School has finished for Christmas....YAY!! I'm so excited!! I am still working on the church directory but it's nearly done now so things are finishing slowly. No more school til 1st week of Feb (this is like the long summer holidays in UK)

Tomorrow we have the general elections. Please pray for peace! Already bomb threats have made everywhere - mainly in the big cities. Bombs threatened for tomorrow as well. All my friends are planning to vote at 6am - before any trouble can start. They are saying we are going to have a curfew from 6pm Sunday night to 6pm Monday night, but we wait to see if this will happen or not. It may just be a National holiday on Monday instead.

In all the craziness and everyone going mad leading up to it, my friend was 'assaulted' today - that is the Spanish translation, can't remember the word in English. She lives in an apartment with another girl (both Honduran) and she was by herself, sleeping in her apartment at 2pm when 2 men broke in. They put a blanket over her head and then tied her feet, put the gun against her and asked her if she wanted to live. Then they realised they had the wrong address! They were looking for someone - that they wanted to kill - but they got it v wrong! So said that's why they weren't going to kill her. They took her money and phone and told her they would kill her if she called the police or anything. And they left. So, she didn't call the police but went straight to her friends house and later to her brother's. But how scary. People are getting brave these days, as predicted by everyone in the run up to elections.

Please pray for protection for the people here in Honduras and for my friends and I.

Good news though. I went for lunch at the Vega's today. They were thanking people for helping them with the aid-relief for El Salvador. Becky's mum decided that I am going to marry a Honduran (trust me there is NO chance of that happening!) and that I need to know how to cook Honduran food, so she taught me how to make Pupusas - traditional Honduran food (that I love) and so I made 40 of them today for everyone and they were v good!

Not sure when I will get to update this again - depends how things go. I wish my computer wasn't so useless so I could use it in my house for internet. If anyone sees any good offers on Laptops please let me know!