Volunteering in Honduras with Project Trust: The teaching has begun!

So, on Monday we started teaching. I had all of my things prepared for the seven kids I was expecting: materials, name places, crayons. Then 14 kids turned up. 14! As you can imagine chaos soon erupted as I ran round the classroom trying to get them to draw various things as I only had enough stuff for seven kids to do the planed activity, while trying to figure out the names of all of the kids and if they were actually meant to be in my class! I think its fair to say the first day was pretty much a disaster. However, things got better the second day and I can now keep most of the kids in their seats and on task. I also have a hang of who is meant to be in my class, so when random children come wandering in I can tell them again that this isn't their room and redirect them. Apart from one or two trouble makers, my kids are lovely and I'll try to get some pictures up soon as they are very cute.

Last weekend we went to the pool with Ione and Michaela which was very nice and we spent a day sunbathing (coated in factor 50 of course) and swimming which was nice apart from Ione managing to tear all the ligaments in her foot jumping in. She's okay now though and her and some other volunteers are off to see the Copan ruins this weekend. Unfortunately we couldn't go as we have to plan our lessons for the next three weeks and make numerous sets of flashcards.

Another exiting thing we have been introduced to is the Sunday market. A teacher at the school took us and it is amazing. There are so many fruits and vegetables which are so yummy and so cheap. For under £4 we got two salted oranges (which are green here), 6 guyabas, 10 sweet potatoes, a bag of 20 lychees, 5 passion fruit, a squash and a melon! We can't wait to go back tomorrow. The smells, the colors and the general busyness puts us in a great mood for the rest of the day.

Thats all for now, I'll let you know how the second week of teaching goes, and any other news from Hondieland!