Tuesday, March 16

Today as a normal day until La Union came to play a futbol game at our school in prepartation for SAG. SAG is Student Annual Gathering and all of the Abundant Life schools in Honduras go to Teguz for a weekend and compete in different things like futbol, basketball, chess, ping-pong, debate and other sorts of things. It’s a huge deal for the kids; only the middle and high school get to go. It costs quite a bit of money as well. The futbol game began at 11:40, so the hour before (science) it was almost impossible to keep my kids focused on what we were talking about. The bus came, horns were being blown, drums were pounding, and you could just feel the excitement in the air for the game. Almost the entire school watched it because they were either at lunch or we let them out of class so they could watch. It was hot, too, for the poor girls that were playing. All the kids were out there, screaming and chanting, blowing those crazy horns and banging on the drums they brought. It was crazy; I felt like I was back in high school for a second at a big rival game. La Union is one of our rivals because they’re so close to us. Jake was bragging to us and talking smack to us. It was really fun watching and participating in that, too. Unfortunately, La Union just played better than us and they ended up winning 4-1. I stayed after to finish room because Mr. Lara took tutorias, which was awesome and then headed home.