I love my car!??

How can so much happen in such a short time? I think I should update this blog daily (sadly time does not allow for this!) Where to start...

Wednesday night was fantastic! It was football time again and we went to watch Honduras v Mexico in the qualifying round for the World Cup 2010. It meant a late night as the match was in San Pedro - 2 hours away and we had to come back the same night as we had school the next morning! Fun! So, Amanda and I went with Jaime, Zuko, Kike and Eduardo. Instead of taking my poor damaged car we went in Kike's very old pick up truck! He'd put an old mattress in the back and so Jaime, Zuko, Amanda and I could stretch out and sleep in the back whilst he and Eduardo were up front! Hilarious - mind you was very windy when we were going fast, not to mention chilly when it got around midnight!! The match was great - minus the whole crowd throwing their beers into the air at each goal - thus covering us in it! We won 3-1. The stadium was packed and the atmosphere amazing. A fantastic night.

Amanda, me, Zuko, Jaime

Eduardo and Kike (in front)

Thursday was sports day - Mini Olympics - for the younger children ...Kinder- Grade 3. It went well and the kids had great fun. Friday was the same for Grades 4 - 11. It was one of the hottest days so far...reaching around the mid 30's C. Maybe even closer to 40, we 're not sure...but hot. 6 hours standing out in the scorching sun with no shade means I am vv burnt!

After having caught up on a lot of sleep this morning, I took my car out to meet friends this afternoon about 4pm. Amanda wanted to walk so she set off across the campo and I set off in my car so we could get back afterwards. 1 block down the road there was an enormous explosion and lots of smoke and my back tyre blew!! All the neighbours heard it and rushed outside to see the local Gringa standing there staring at the huge hole in her tyre!!! Luckily there was no fire with the smoke and it wasn't the front tyre. The road is more like driving on sand as it is so dusty and so I wasn't going fast. I saw Amanda in the campo and called her over and we called Jaime and he and Zuko came to help us change the tyre etc. Zuko didn't have his motorbike and it took them 25 mins to walk to our house, and in this time the local drunk man thought it was great to come and chat to us whilst everyone else just stared at us. Even though we were close to home we couldn't leave the car - as the other tyres would disappear - so we opened the boot and sat on the back and waited! They came and changed it and all is well. As it turned out we weren't supposed to be meeting our friends til 6pm, which was such a blessing as if we had gone when we were meant to we'd have been waiting in the dark!

Adony is coming with me to the mechanic on Monday as the suspension has gone too - and I can't explain all that in Spanish! Hurray for having lots of guy friends!!

Again, God has taken care of me in my car - it could have been a whole lot worse!! Thank you to everyone at St George's who are starting to raise money to help me buy a car that is less dangerous! Once I sell my car I am going to need additional money to buy one that actually works properly, so if anyone else would like to donate please let me know and I can tell you how.