Internet in the mountains

I never thought it would happen, but after five months of using really slow internet only twice a week, we finally wired up our houses way up here in Celaque so that we can get the internet. What happened was pretty awesome- a parent at our school overheard us talking about our internet woes last week, when we had first returned from the United States...a trip that reminded all of us of how wonderful it is to have fast internet all the time! She said that she knew a guy who might be able to find a signal up here in the mountains. So, the guy came up, found a signal, and now here I am, blogging from the highest peak in Honduras.

This means that I will be able to check my email much more frequently and stay in much better touch with people... yay for technology!

This week has been great. It's so nice to be back to work and spending time with the children and my friends. We are battling very chilly weather here though! The people in the midwest get mad at me when I complain about the cold, and I know that the chilliness here is nothing compared to the freezing temperatures back home. But we don't have any central heating in our houses. We don't even have walls without holes in them, so the temperature outside is the temperature inside. It's cold! Hopefully it won't last for too much longer though.

An exciting piece of news is that there's a new teacher in our midst... a boy! It's fun having an American guy up on the mountain, and he's a U of M graduate too! (Go Blue- we wolverines do cool stuff after graduation!) Anyway, he and I have a bunch of mutual friends, which is pretty fun to talk about. What a small world.

So, we've been having a good time just hanging out and enjoying our internet...we are all excitedly preparing ourselves for the Lost Season Finale, and we're settling in for the next six months in Honduras. Stay tuned for pics of my students... I can't believe how big they've gotten since the beginning of the year. I am so proud of their progress, too, they are really improving on every level.

I'm proud of myself too, because my Spanish really has gotten so much better. One of the teachers told me the other day that I've definitely reached a level of fluency... I'm not really sure if that's true or not, but it was one of the nicest compliments I've gotten in a while!

So, this blog was pretty random, but that's the way things go at the beginning of the year. And I'm expecting that there will be more random adventures soon to come.