So as of right now, the results of the election yesterday are not official, but it seems as though Mel, the liberal party candidate, is Honduras's new president ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I was so sad that I couldn´t eat pumpkin pie and whipped cream and more pie with whipped cream last night, and then pie with whipped cream for breakfast ( Read more... )

Aaaghhhh! T minus 40 hours until this crazy workshop comes into being! I'm a huge ball of nerves right now. Breathe, Alice, breathe. So, I've narrowed the obscure "Math Games" down to one game, "Math Battleship," and I'm actually pretty excited about it, but I'm worried that all of the teachers will have already seen it or something. My ( Read more... )

Discovery School is hosting the only professional development program in Honduras for educators next weekend, and all the teachers at Discovery are required to present a workshop. agh! I'm presenting on math games and projects for high school and I'm super nervous. We're in crunch time right now because the workshop is really stressful, we just ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween everyone ( Read more... )

Hurricane Beta was supposed to hit Honduras today, but it veered to the south instead and landed on Nicaragua. It has been a crazy hurricane season, with Hurricane Stan completely destroying parts of Honduras, Guatamala, and El Salvador. Thousands of people died in mud slides in Guatamala. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm okay so far ( Read more... )

Well, I had to turn midterm grades in yesterday and I about had a heart attack over how much work I had to do. School has taken over my entire life now. (manical laugh) I just decided this week that I am going to split up the Senior Calculus class into one Calculus class and one Statistics class. This means another prep (more work) for me, but ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've written, but in the last couple of days, I have really been reminded about how different a place Central America is compared to the United States. One of my good friends here, Antonio, is from Venezuela. On Monday he got a call from his parents in Venezuela saying that his best friend of 18 years had been shot and ( Read more... )

So I almost had a nervous breakdown this morning because teaching is soooooo much work. I remember when I was doing my student teaching in the spring, I was getting about 4 hours of sleep a night. In Honduras, I've been working 12 to 14 hours a day, that's only at the school. That doesn't include the hours I spend at home planning, etc... I ( Read more... )

The strike was settled last night at 11:30pm, but school was still cancelled today. Last week, they raised the price of gas by 20 limpeiras and today they lowered it by 15 limpieras. That just goes to show that the gas companies were trying to gouge the people. Last night on the news I saw riot police macing and beating people who were just ( Read more... )