Field Trips and Comedores

Finishing up our second week yesterday in La Union, Jack and I had the opportunity to participate in some unique experiences! Friday morning was our scheduled time to teach at the school, but it happened to be the morning for the school-wide field day. The two of us were invited to join them and Friday morning we hiked with the whole school about 30-40 minutes out of town and up a mountain to a soccer field in the middle of the woods called "Campo de Cerro."

(This picture shows all of us hiking through the woods on the way there.)

The whole morning consisted of soccer games of different grades and genders along with other games on the side lines. Jack and I first played frisbee for a while that turned into "keep away" from the random dog that followed us there and then played some volleyball with the 7th and 8th grade girls. I then joined one of the teachers in playing a game that consisted of lining the girls up in between us and throwing balls at them. It seemed a little unfair to me but quite entertaining! They somehow enjoyed it, so I didn't feel too bad. After enjoying some other unique games, Jack and I got recruited to the male teachers' soccer team to face the oldest boys. Not only were we outnumbered, but the students were WAY better than us. Let alone the monsoon the day before left the field flooded. After about 30 minutes of sliding, falling, and being embarrassed by kids, we lost about 2-8. I say 3-8 because I "scored" off my head since the goal was made out of logs and it was missing a crossbar, but it was kind of higher than what the crossbar would have been. Either way, we got creamed.

(This is a group of younger students playing futbol at Campo de Cerro.)

After hanging out a while, we hiked back and met up with the rest of our group at the compound on lunch break. Since Jack and I got to the compound after the rest of our group ate lunch, we headed out to a "comedor" to grab some lunch on the way to work on the school. There are several comedores around town and they are basically small little restaurants out of people's houses with a few tables in them. Luckily, one of the teachers from the school who is originally from Holland, MI, a couple people from U of M working on microfinance things, and another teacher from Scotland were in the comedor and helped us figure out what we were doing and helped us order. Jack got some baleadas and I ordered some carne asada with orange Fanta. All of that together cost us about 80 lempira or around 5 bucks. Talk about cheap, but delicious. We finished up the day with our last afternoon of working on the school and celebrated by making chocolate covered frozen bananas!

After a relaxing day today, we are excited to head to Tela tomorrow morning for a few days of vacation on the beach! See you in a week!