End of the quarter trip!

One of my favorite things about the end of the quarter is the teacher work day that accompanies it! Last Friday, we had a teacher work day and got to leave school at 12…which means that we can make it down the hill to catch a bus and travel for the weekend!

So last weekend, 12 of us teachers piled on a bus, headed to 6 different locations! Allan and I, along with our friends Michael (the amazing Jazz drummer!) and Eileen set off for Tela, a tiny beach town here in Honduras.

There was not much to do there except eat some street food, hang out on the beach, play in the ocean (which was especially fun because Michael and Eileen are from in-land USA and have only seen the ocean 2 or 3 times!) drink coconut milk straight from a coconut, and eat some delicious seafood, but it was great to get away and relax with some friends. I just feel blessed to get to travel so cheaply to other parts of Honduras. Its such a cool perk of working/volunteering here!

The beaches in Tela were pretty run down, but also beautiful in a way. They used to export bananas from here so there was a long, run down pier with train tracks. It was pretty cool.

  This is our friend Mario that was selling coconuts on the beach. He told us that he is in the 2nd grade. It was crazy to think about my students selling coconuts on the beach to help their families. Also crazy to see a 2ng grader handle a machete. :) So we happened upon this car that appeared to be made completely out of junk parts from other old cars. It was totally bizarre…and also bizarre that it is probably completely legal to drive this car around town!  The hostel where we stayed had the highest roof in Tela and proved to be a great place to watch the sunset :)

Back to school on Monday….. :)