At the end of term all of the Project Trust volunteers met up in Copan to celebrate the end of the world. Copan is a town high up in the mountains and hours away from anywhere else. It's famous for its coffee and Mayan ruins. It took us 7 hours to get there from Tela which included a 4 hour journey along a precariously thin winding road through the mountains in a rusted, chugging chicken bus. There weren't enough seats, so the driver pulled a plastic stool out f...

I am so sorry for not blogging in ages, but here is a very belated school nativity blog for you: The Christmas term ended on a high with the Christmas Show. I put on a production of the Nativity with my grade 4's using the script from the book Jesus' Christmas Party which tells the story of a grumpy sleep-deprived innkeeper constantly being woken up to facilitate the birth of Jesus is his stable and all the guests that cheerily turn up at the door, only to be sh...

On Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving at school. I had to organise food and games for my class Thanksgiving party. Rather than everyone bring in money and one of the parents buys pizza and ice cream like last time, I thought we'd do something different. All the kids brought in something different. We had baleadas, pastelitos, tacos, enchiladas, crisps, chocolate, gallons of soda, a fruit bowl, sweets and cheesecake! It was a feast! The kids loved sharing and t...

I flew!! I flew in a microlight plane! For those who don't know, a microlight plane is like a hanglider with an engine. It was incredible! There's nothing like it!I felt like I was actually flying, not just sat in something that was flying. It's nothing like being in a big, bulky plane, you can feel the wind flapping your clothes and the spray of the sea making your flip-flopped feet salty. You can look all around you. Up, to watch the wing soaring in a blue blue...

I don't know what's become of me. When I left the UK I despised the sleezy, corrupt game that is football. This "game" filled with greasy-haired, cheating-on-their-wives, majory over-paid wusses who somehow managed to become heroes to football fans all over the UK has always disgusted me. If you've never watched the Mitchell and Webb sketch "football" then watch it now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU . This is basically how I felt about football livin...