I´m Pooped!

Somewhere between hiking up to La Nariz de Indio, the avocados and sweet bread in Santa Clara, the hummus and falafel, or the three chicken tacos, I aquired some sort of stomach bug. I can´t say it was all that bad because when Jay got it he could hardly leave the vecinity of the bathroom to run to the store. I was at least able to pull myself together long enough to walk across town and watch the superbowl.

But enough about my bowel movements...here it is Monday night and tomorrow morning is my last day of classes. I am a bit sad to be leaving Rosa and her family and to say goodbye to my teacher who has not only helped me improve my spanish, but has taught me so much about the culture here through our conversations, our feildtrips to visit local families in need, and provided the opportunity to teach at some local schools.

I didn´t make it out to the highschool this afternoon. On my way to the internet cafe one of the students saw me in the street and asked how I was doing. I told him I would be there tomorrow and ready to teach them a Bob Marley song. I went down to the school around 2pm when the class lets out and met up with Jema who taught the class on her own today. She said it went well but would be happy to have me in there tomorrow. At camp we do a game with a ball where we write questions like, ¨your favorite color¨ or ¨tell a joke¨. I decided to spin that game into an activity to help the kids work on their verbs. So this afternoon, sitting in a tree house at this cool little restaurant overlooking the lake, Jema and I sat and wrote verbs that the when the kids would catch the ball, wherever their thumb landed they would have to make a sentence with that verb. The idea of sedentary learning doesn´t very much appeal to me, let alone sedentary teaching so hopefully this will change it up and get the kids to be a bit more interactive.

So although I am approaching the end of a great phase of my travels I know that I am entering into a new and just as exciting chapter. I think three weeks is all I can really take of classes and the two days before I leave San Pedro will be dedicated to lounging around in hammocks with a lake view while sipping on cool beverages. I have started flipping through my lonely planet books and have for the most part figured out my itinerary for the remainder of my time in Central America. So excited to wind up on Utila Island off the coast of Honduras and enjoy some Caribbean scuba diving.