OH MY AY CARAMBA

ooookayyyyyy

i have no idea where to start to be perfectly honest. my life has been a complete blur of stress, isolation, fear, loneliness, opened eyes, awakening, shock, disbelief, pure joy, chaos, fun and sun.

i was having such a horrible time in san juan intibuca. it was horrible. mercedes was horrible. school was horrible and when i look at it now i KNOW why i was unhappy, i hated every minute of what my life had become, and i kept trying to find some kind of solace every single day to make me happy... someone once said 'you shouldn't be made to feel bad for doing something good' and that is SO RIGHT (thank you kevin).

so basically i hated it and i knew i wasnt happy. you saw how much i wanted to go home to scotland and that was me being calm about it! i was pulling my hair out by the roots with frustration and i really was just so depressed and concerned all the time.

so mercedes told project a whole load of bullshit about me being an alcoholic or something, and that was their grounds for sacking me from PT. so mercedes and i officially hate each other hahahaha... and our in house rep turned up at our house to take us away from her. Emma has a placement in san pedro sula, but i was in total limbo to see whether i was to remain in honduras (if i could find my own placement and look after myself) or whether i would have to return home.

our rep came to the house, collected me, keving and emma and drove us to gracias where we hung out for the weekend. the following day we drove to san pedro where i was put up in a kinda hostel place.

i took a bus from san pedro alone to a town half an hour from the city called cofradia. there are 2 bilingual schools here, i turned up here with kevin (who followed suit an hour later) and here we were sitting in some wee town park in a place in honduras where we had no idea where ANYTHING was. idiot that i was, took the bus from san pedro, the man shouted 'cofradia parque' at the bus to let us know where we were but i didnt take notice, so there was me sitting on the bus just bumping my way through the little town of cofradia, all the way along the back roads of the town, passing people and churches and stuff and for a moment i was concerned that i had no idea where i was going, but i decided to let it happen. i just sat on the bus sapping up the town and realising i loved everything about it, from the changing districts within the town, to the side streets, the little schools and churches, to the park and the little pulperias, to all the people doing their thing around the roads...

and so i got off and got on another bus on the same route coming back the way. i stayed on it and got off at the park and sat there waiting for kevin.

he arrived, we phoned our friend in gracias who had mentioned the placement at CBS, cofradia's bilingual school, and asked her what we should do, she said get a little mototaxi to the crazy gringo called ben's house. he had a pool seemingly.

so i negotiated with the taxi man until he realised the ben i was talking about (not that I EVEN KNEW who i was talking about) and we popped in the cab. we arrived at the place, walked in and realised we were in a place of pure bliss. it was a place called The Rocks, for a reason. the entire pool and whole place is created from rocks piled upon each other, the house is a big wooden house and there are places to jump into the big rock pool... you'll see some photos eventually, honest.

so we chatted to this guy ben for AGES about the school and stuff, we met a guy called martin who took us on a brief tour of the 2 volunteer houses, and i spoke to the school administrator called carla...she said that kev could help out with the huge 3rd grade class...and i could become the new 4th grade teacher of 18 kids.

i had just been given the job '4th grade TEACHER'

holy crap.

so anyway, we found ourselves in the house nearest The Rocks, and kev and i got a big room at the back of the house with 2 beds and a bathroom in it! in our house we have Garret and another Kevin, there was a girl called Jamie but she left just last night.

the other house consists of Carla, Eva, Ian and Suzie, but i will explain all the people at a later date.

just thought i would outline what i'm living in right now.

school starts at 7.15, finishes at 2.10. we get a little breakfast (either a baleada, or a taco, or a pastelito...) and we get a lunch.

i teach the 4th grade class everything, and i can divide my day into whatever lessons i want :)

the kids can be little rascals but they really are just so willing to work, and their english is AMAZING.
over the past week or so that i have been teaching them, i have successfully taught them all how to divide WITH REMAINDERS, when they have never done division in their lives. i am so proud.

there is so much more to talk about but i can't think right now, plus i want to go for a swim right now, i'm sweating like michael jackson in a nursery...

ask me questions...love y'all xxx