We've got bananas!!!

       I've been a lazy bum about keeping up with this blog business. I would say "I'm sorry." but I always tell my kids "Don't be sorry, be better." In keeping with my own advice, I'll just spare you the apology and skip straight to the "be better" portion of the program.

    My roommate and I moved (well, got moved...but that's a whole other story) into a new house in October. There are trees in our yard that we thought were banana. Having never actually, knowingly seen a banana tree in real life, this was just a guess on my part. The months have come and gone and we've seen not a trace of fruit which led me to believe that maybe they weren't banana trees or they were too young to produce fruit. While Skyping with my mom today, I was showing her my yard from my bedroom window when low and behold, I spotted a bunch of bananas! Walked outside later to find that two of our trees have fruit on them. I don't have the first idea about when they'll be ready for picking or if they're even really bananas. Plantains looks exactly the same to me and plantains are EVERYwhere here. Who knows what they really are?? For now, I'm just so stinking excited to have anything growing in my yard that we'll figure the rest out later. I aspire to garden one day and this is as close as I'm getting for a while. The banana/plantains and we've got come cilantro growing be the gate. It'll work for now!

Getting Back on the Wagon.

I made it about two weeks into the new year before my blog became less than a priority. Teaching has a way to seep into every, single area of your life. I find myself laying in bed at night thinking of better ways to present vocabulary words or analyzing my latest attempt at disciplining middle schoolers. After all, my one and only reason for being in Honduras is to work at Agape. If it weren't for my job, I'd be somewhere else having a different crop of experiences. (I just finished my first interview about what I've been up to the last couple of years teaching and traveling wise. Check it out  HERE:)) I also have the blessing of being able to completely focus on my work.  I look forward to my future but I'd be doing my students and myself a disservice if I didn't take full advantage of this time in my life. Alllll that to say, I'm jumping back on the wagon. I have been a champ about taking pictures every day but I never carve out the time to upload them and blog. I'm caught up with school stuff, for this second, so I'm issuing myself a personal challenge to get all caught up.  Here's a little preview. I have to be clocked in at school by 6:50. An ungodly hour by anyone's definition. The silver lining to that yucky, dark cloud is that, when I have time, I can sit and watch the sun rise over the mountains. I stopped straight in the middle of the sidewalk to snap this one. Dropped all my stuff and dug out my camera as soon as I saw it. I'm not a morning person but I don't care who you are....that's just breathtaking.