Last Day in Teguc

Friday, August 14
Today we chilled around the school for a while, seeing the girls play volleyball and such. We were told Laura Beth was going to come today so we were excited to finally meet her after all her delays with her flights. We all had an opportunity to meet with the teacher in Tegucigalpa who teaches our grade; so I chatted with the 5th grade teacher. She went through all the material with me: the teacher editions, the student workbooks, the books and the curriculum. The curriculum is A Beka, which is made by Pensacola Christian College. It’s quite detailed and laid out lesson by lesson and after seeing that, I felt a lot better about actually teaching these kids. They make it easy for someone like me who has never taught to be enabled to teach kids. We also got interviewed by the TV station that the church broadcast explaining who we were and why we were teaching in Honduras.
I made it official today and signed my contract. Jackie, the unofficial photographer of our group, took photos of all of us signing the contract and shaking Vicente’s hand. We also took care of health insurance and learned how to do orientation from the staff at Tegucigalpa (which is quite specific). After our day at school we went to buy school supplies for our classrooms in Gracias. It was our last night in Teguc so Laura Beth and Julia’s host family, the Villela’s, took us out the mall and then bowling! It took a while to figure out our plans because we weren’t all in the same place, but everyone met at the mall to eat dinner and then we headed to the 6 lane bowling alley. It was so generous of the Villela’s to take us out and spend their time with us and it was a great way to end our time in Teguc before we headed to Gracias.