More School stories

  Cofradia, Honduras
Friday, January 26, 2007

We have now spent 3 weeks volunteering in the school... and it ain't getting any easier!!!!

As we mentioned before there is no such thing as a textbook for each student in the school. Basically, what happens is that there is ONE book and the teacher will photocopy the pages that he/she wants to teach. The photocopier is in the office, and only works about half of the time, which, as you can imagine is a real pain in the backside. The lady that "runs" the office spends nearly all of her time playing Super Mario (she's quite good at it by now). The funny thing about this is that we are in Honduras, so what do they have next to the photocopier? Erra shur... it seems as good a place as any to leave the security guards pump action shotgun!!!!!!! Ha Ha... anybody who has an off day can just come in and pick it up and do as they wish... crazy stuff!!

01 "We love our teacher!"

Last Wednesday, Sarah was doing the Kindergarten Cop thing, and teaching the kids the "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" song. In order to facilitate the teaching of this wonderful tune, she drew a picture of a "person" on the whiteboard to demonstrate where the aforementioned body parts actually are on the body. This person was initially genderless... however, unbeknownst to Miss Sarah one of the little 5 year old boys snuck up behind her and drew a big Willy in between the persons legs, which as you can imagine caused absolute uproar in the classroom... it was the funniest thing since the very first funniest thing ever!!! All Miss Sarah could do was laugh!

Just as a side note... Miss Sarah now has the kids all the ways up to the letter G.

Another little humorous incident occurred when Miss Sarah was trying to teach some of the older kids how to use the verb "to do". She gave them sentences and they had a choice of words to fill in the blanks eg. 'Shopping', 'homework' etc. In a grievous grammatical error one little boy wrote... "We are doing my mother".... Ooops!!!

03 "Rabbit ears... what rabbit ears ?"

Two new volunteers have arrived, Neil and Patti (both Americanos). This means a slightly less workload for everyone, which was baaaadly needed. We do however, only have one week left before we head on to Nicaragua! It'll be awesome getting a decent nights sleep again! It's awful here trying to sleep, with the multitude of dogs barking every night and the fecker that lives below our bedroom window getting up at 5am and cutting his lawn... no word of a lie... he actually is out cutting his lawn!!! Different folks different strokes I suppose!!!!

It's now official... the 60 year old karate teacher is now permanently on the "Freak Radar"... avoid at all costs!!!!! There are a few reasons as to why he is but we'll give 2 quick examples.

First off, he wrote a "serious" letter to one of the other volunteer girls stating in it that "she should marry him and follow the way of the Lord"... yeah... the Lord wants to get to Europe doesn't he!

Secondly, he enquired (he was deadly serious) as to why we don't have any kids yet. He said to Sarah, "Mike doesn't like working, does he", implying that "working" was the art of jiggy jiggy! Then, even worse, he said to her "you should have children now, while you are young, because when you get older your womb will become dry... you need to follow the way of the Lord"
The guy is a strange fish and even has 3 different families including a 15 year old wife... so you can make your own minds up !!

15

Our diet is getting better and better as each day passes. We now are eating dust on a regular basis, as you walk around the place, you can actually feel the dust from the roads crunching between your teeth. It is supposed to be excellent for your digestive system (NOT!!!).

The computer lab is nearly finished, if only the clown of a computer teacher would stop meddling with stuff!! Just need to put some software on to the machines and the kids will have a working networked computer laboratory. A special note to Mike's computer whiz Uncle Kev back in Ireland for helping out as well.

That's the latest update from the world of disorganisation! Never seen so much chaos!!