For those of you who may have lost count, I’ve now been in Honduras for 43 days.

Yip yip hooray!

I have changed this cheer to say “yip” instead of “hip” because I have a new favorite store. It’s a grocery store on the first floor and a lovely craft store on the second floor. It’s a wonderful, magical place called Yip. I went through the store singing, “IIIIIIIII’ve haddd the time of my liiiiiiiiiiife, and I’ve neeeeeever felt this way before!” (You know, from Dirty Dancing (I think) and that one cruise commercial.) We found Dr. Pepper, Vanilla Coke, Trolli gummy worms, Kleenex, stencils, popsicles…awesome things. And for good prices! Win, win, win.

This past week has been quite a week for celebrating. Besides discovering the wonders of Yip, on Wednesday (Sept. 10) we celebrated Day of the Child with pinatas, pizza, soda, and some fun skits!

Here are a couple pictures from our celebration:

Minion piñata!

With a few of my second graders 🙂

We also celebrated 193 years of independence in Honduras! The actual independence day is today (Sept. 15), but we celebrated on Friday since today we’re out of school for the holiday. The kids dressed up in traditional Honduran clothing–the girls with beautiful dresses, long braids, and makeup, and the guys in white button-down shirts, blue jeans, bandanas, and hats. They all looked so cute!! We marched from the school up to the capilla (chapel) where we sang the national hymn, saw traditional dancing, heard songs, poems, and history, and celebrated with traditional Honduran food.

The march up to the capilla.

First, second, and third grade singing a song for the program.

With one of my sweet third graders.

Our principal with the kids.

My roomies and friends.

We had a half-day on Friday since we just had the Independence Day Program, so my roomies and I took a tiny vacation and stayed in a fancy hotel in the city for the night! We were celebrating all kinds of things: Independence Day, Day of the Teacher (September 17), and Amanda’s upcoming birthday! It was really nice to be able to get away for a night and just chill. We’re getting plenty of time to rest and recharge with a day off for Independence Day and another day off for Day of the Teacher. This week we’ll only have 3 days of school!

I’ve still been attending the professionals group at Impacto on Friday nights and I go to their Sunday morning service as well. It’s not the same as my church back home of course, but it’s a solid church with great people, and I’m glad to be a part of it!

Prayer Points: We lost one of our teachers last week due to some personal problems, so we’re in need of a new high school teacher. Please be praying that God will bring the exact person we need and that the students won’t fall behind in their work. One of the students who is finishing his last semester of schooling is taking a medical school entrance exam (something like that) next weekend that’s really important, so please pray for him too! And lastly, we got a new baby this week! He is 18 months old (but he looks more like 6-8 months). Please pray that he’ll bond with his mentor parents and counselors and that they’ll have wisdom in loving him and taking care of him.

Thanks for keeping up with me and all that’s going on here!

Thank you for your support!

I’d love to read any comments or answer any questions that you have!

Peace out, y’all!

XOXO

Lindsey