Immigracion and Puppies!

So this past week has been very busy. I got sick AGAIN and had to go to a specialist in tegucigalpa. It turned out to be absolutely nothing but I got to stay in a hotel with hot water, watch the Olympics in English, eat fabulous food, and use the internet for free so it was a nice vacation. Hopefully I am done getting sick, I think it is either all of the grease that my mom uses (even though I told her the doctor told me not to eat greasy food), or the malaria medicine. We also had our first volunteer return to the US (we miss you Monica!), which was sad but it was also nice because we were together in Tegucigalpa and did not have to get lost on our own!

We all went to immigracion this past weekend and spent forever there getting our visas and ID cards. We got to get pizza and donuts afterwards and that was fabulous. It´s funny how much we appreciate simple things like pizza now! We also went to the US Catholic volunteers´ house for dinner and had spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread. After eating so much greasy comida tipica spaghetti tasted so good.

Yesterday the power was out most of the day and night so there was not a lot to do. However, my family´s pregnant dog decided it would be a good time to give birth. It was an awesome experience, bonding with my dad and brother while watching the dog give birth in the candlelight. I had never seen an animal give birth before and it was very interesting. She knew exactly what to do and what to eat...crazy. She had seven puppies but one was either born dead or died sometime last night. We went to bed because we thought she had finished giving birth and then this morning there was one dead puppy and one more live one so I guess she was not done. Now I have cute little babies to play with!

We have been spending a lot of time in the local schools and that is always interesting. Last Friday I went to a classroom with four grades in it. I guess two of the teachers had not come to work so all of the grades were together. Needless to say, not much work got done that day. Public schools generally only have four to five hours of class per day and much of that is spent at recess, not to mention all of the days lost due to teacher strikes which are fairly common. It is very sad because most of the kids really want to learn and get extremely excited when we come to do activities and teach them new things. Hopefully we can make a difference in some of their lives.