Moonlighting!

So, school rumbles on much the same. The Grade 10's and 11's had a Science Fair today. I'm so glad I dont teach High School science - it was all soo impressive, they each had to come up with experiments. Very technical. The amazing thing was that they explained it all so clearly to my Grade 1's and 2's as we went around.

Exciting news is that I'm becoming somewhat of an entrapronour. Who'd have thought? My friend Jessa has found me a good little photography business. I was offered teaching English in town to adults at a local language school, but didn't want it and so offfered it to Jessa who took it. In return, she managed to get me a photography job for her friend Luigi, who runs the local pizza restaurant in town! He wants photos of town for the website he is launching for Siguatepeque. He is going to pay me for these - amount to be discussed this weekend. He is then going to put my name under every photo so that if anyone else uses them they have to ask me/ pay me (yeah right) or they can ask me to take photos for them! The plan is that local businesses are all buying pages of the website for advertising and when they do I will go and take photos for them and get a percentage of the money Luigi gets!! Something like that! If nothing comes of it at least I have had fun taking photos of town in the process.

The plaza in town (was opened shortly after we arrived here)

We confidently walked into a hotel and went up to the roof to take this photo! No-one noticed!

I have also had a good chat with Alfredo, who runs an orphan project called Providence World Ministries. I was asking how I could become involved and help..(more on that in the next blog). He is such a visionary, he has plans for the next 20 years. To cut a very long story short, he was saying that he wants his staff to be bilingual. All the staff from the orphanage - House Parents to the secretaries and architects. So I casually offered to teach them English. The next day, Rocio in my Grade 1 class was very excited to tell me that I am going to teach her Daddy English! It appears Alfredo has taken up my offer and already told the people. Not sure when it all starts, but I may be getting paid for this too!! I am looking forward to it, as I can get to know lots of local people and along side me helping their English they can help my Spanish! It will be good, and give me useful things to do with my time.

Today, we had our Staff Training day. I have to admit I was none too impressed to have a training day at 7.30am on a Saturday! But, despite the morning being a repeat of things I already know it wasn't too bad. In fact, the day got much better as it went along. At lunch, it came about that they wanted everyone to sing their National Anthems. So the 5 Canadians stood up and sang, then the 2 Americans ...and then me! God save the queen indeed! Was hilarious. Then we got all the Hondurans to stand and sing their N.A. - all 7 verses and choruses - took a while but was very funny. The next hour preceeded to consist of the Honduran teachers singing all their National songs - each town has one - and we even got to see some of the dances and songs to flirt with people. Highly random and I was even wondering if something was put into their rice water as they relaxed so much! Was great to see everyone getting on so well. Too well at one point as Noel and Fernando decided I should marry a Honduran so that I stay in this country, at which point the jokes all turned upon me, seeing who I should marry! Was very embarrassing indeed as Fernando offered his brother etc. So, what started out as tiresome became quite rowdy! My kind of staff meeting!

You can't complain about skies like this outside your front door in the evenings! This is the view from our house -across to the High school and the hills behind!

Finally, may I just say a big thanks to all the many Barbaras who are now appearing on my blog comments!