Home Sweet Home

I'm home for the holidays!
I didn't have internet access for last little bit so lt me catch you up.
Time in Ahuas flew by, I ended up working there for about three weeks. It was fantastic.

At the clinic, I learned how to take blood pressure and helped out taking temperatures and weighing babies. Interacting with the patients was always a blast, they were always willing to help me with my Miskitu. Shadowing Dr. Rudy on his rounds was one of the most exciting and enlightening parts of my trip.

My English class even got a hang on conjugating in present tense. I think they were one of the toughest groups to leave behind. They were so enthusiastic and definitely made my first teaching experience memorable. Class started at 5:00 pm honduras time (so really around 5:15-5:30) and 5:30 is when the electricity comes on. But there was a problem with our light, you have to rotate it until it lights up. Every night we would precariously stack two tables on top of each other and someone would climb and fix our light. All my students were older than I am but we had a great time.

The kids from sunday school were just about as hard to leave as my English students. There are two different Sunday Schools on Sundays. One is at the Moravian Church by the clinic during the moning service and the other is later in the afternoon outside in a nearby neighborhood. When I got back to La Ceiba, a friend of mine from Ahuas was in town and we got to buy Christmas presents for the second group. My friend took the presents back to Ahuas and will pass them out for us. These kids are so sweet and might not be getting much else for Christmas.

Before I knew it my time in Ahuas was up. We finally got a flight out on one of the mission airplanes that run out of the clinic. Finally, I was making my way to Belen. The plan for Belen is to work with the youth in Belen and some other surrounding towns as well as to teach an english class. However, with only one week in Belen we didn't really have enough time to get anything started. Instead I got to spend the time visiting the Moravian churches in Belen and Cocobila, another nearby town. I'm really looking forward to working with the ministers and youth there.
One of the projects they want me to help with is to make Spanish/Miskitu praise and worship songbooks for the youth. They really want to learn some new songs, so I'll be able to teach them the songs I learned in Ahuas.

I'll be going back in January to begin working with the youth in Belen and Cocobila. I'm also looking into working with the youth in a few other towns that are a bit further away.