Tuesday Sept 15- Independence Day, Last Day of Vacation

We left Tela early this morning at 6 am and started our trip back to Gracias. We didn’t exactly know where the bus station was which could take us back to San Pedro, but we found one which could take us to El Progreso, which was very close to SPS and then we would take a short bus ride to SPS. So we got on the bus to El Progreso, arrived there and hopped on another bus to SPS. This one took the long round about way getting back into town and then didn’t even drop us off at the bus terminal! So then we had to grab taxis to take to the bus terminal. Finally we arrived at the bus terminal, helped Renska and Laura find the right bus to La Union and we boarded a nicer greyhound type bus to take to Santa Rosa. It was SO hot in that bus before it got moving though; I was dripping sweat everywhere. We got moving finally, but then not kidding you 10 minutes into our ride, the bus has tire problems. So we sat on the bus a little while, seeing if it would get fixed, but everyone else was getting off, so we did too. Apparently it couldn’t be fixed so they had to call another bus for us. There we were sitting on the side of the road with the rest of the people from the bus, waiting for another bus. It’s always hot in SPS, too. The other bus arrived shortly and we climbed on and had an uneventful ride back to Santa Rosa. In Santa Rosa we found the bus to Gracias right after we got off so there was no craziness like the last time when we were going to Tela. When we arrived back in Gracias, Jacki called us to tell us she was sick and still in the Copan Ruins because of that and Chad was leaving tomorrow morning. Well Holly, her assistant wasn’t back either, so there were no K4 teachers for Wednesday. We called Mr. Lara to tell him Jackie was sick and wouldn’t be there the next day. Well he started calling Mr. Calderon, and Vicente and it was this big problem because the Laras were still in Teguc, so we were short even more people. I understand their frustration, but Jackie was sick. We tried to figure out how we could help cover Jacki’s classes that day and we had some covered. It was a just a ‘fun’ way to end our vacation.