Wednesday and Thursday, November 25 and 26

Wednesday
Last day of this short week! Pretty normal day; I think everyone was ready for the long weekend to come. I stayed for a bit after school to help with dancing for 7th grade dance. And let me tell you, I got a workout with that dance for an hour and a half of dancing. After dancing I went to town for a bit, then headed back up to pack to get up early tomorrow morning. We were supposed to have a private van/bus originally the school had arranged, but it didn’t work because not everyone came so we had ot take public buses instead. The school still paid for it though, which was nice. We also had to figure out mototaxi rides for the morning because it was going to be really early and I chose to go with Juan Carlos at 4 am. Off to Teguz bright and early tomorrow morning!

Thursday
I got up at like 3 am to get ready to head down the mountain because our bus left at 5 from Gracias. Laura Beth, Mr. Bran, Ana and I all headed to Teguz together. We took a small sort of van/bus to La Esperanza at 5 and then took another nicer coach bus to Teguz from La Esperanza. It took a while to get to Teguz, overall like 6 hours, but we finally arrived, met Ana’s dad who picked us up and brought us to the mall to meet up with Vicente and the people from La Union. We met up at the mall and then the van we had bringing us around the whole weekend brought us to the hotel. We relaxed for a while, used the fast wireless internet, and got ready for the Thanksgiving dinner that evening. We drove a little outside Teguz to one of the administrators’ country houses, which was gorgeous! It was kinda in a woodsy area and we ate on the outdoor porch. The dinner was fancy, very nicely decorated and everyone was dressed nicely. It was all of the administrators from the Teguz school (principals, the Gonzalez’ and Lagos, etc) and Pastor Avelio was there, too. The American teachers, the European girls from La Union (Laura and Renske) and Vicente were the others who were there. It was a such a nice meal with appetizers and great Thanksgiving food! We had turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and green beans. It was comforting to be celebrating Thanksgiving in some way in Honduras since I didn’t get to celebrate it with my family. We had pumpkinish flan for dessert so I got my pumpkin pie! We chatted with the people at our table and really enjoyed ourselves. Afterwards, Vicente invited us to come hang out with him and his friends and play Guitar Hero, so we had fun with that for a while, but we were so tired from getting up so early; so we headed bad to the hotel and to bed.