Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Day 33

I decided to give you a little update since it's been awhile since my last post. I won't be able to put up any pictures this time because I am at the school and their computers can't exactly handle pictures! I'll put some up next time.
Teaching was so much better last week, and it has continued this week. I have built some good relationships with my kids and they are no longer testing me to see how much they can get away with. I really enjoy teaching them, and I have gotten the chance to hang out with a few of them outside of school too, which is nice.
This weekend was 'Village Life' in Punta Gorda. Basically it is a celebration of all the different cultures here in PG. Friday night we went to a show where we watched a whole bunch of different cultural dances being done. Then Saturday Katie and I played in a volleyball tournament during the day, and the three of us went to a dance in the evening. Katie's parents are here visiting right now, so on Sunday we went to Placencia for the day. It was very hot, so we enjoyed spending the day on the first big beach that we've seen in Belize! It's about an hour and a half bus ride, and a ten minute fairy boat ride away, so I think we will be making more weekend trips out that way. We are hoping to go to Guatemala this coming weekend. My time is up, so that's all the updating I can do for now. I'll post more later:)

2 comments:

Christina said...

Hey Trisha,
Glad to hear that you are having such an awesome time. Sounds like the teaching is going well.
Guatemala is great. When you first cross into Guat. you may wonder what you got yourself into but it gets better. Trust me. Hopefully, you will be heading to Tikal. The ruins there are incredible!
Take care,
Christina

Name: Trisha said...

Hey Christina!

We're hoping to hit Tikal as our last stop before coming back to PG after Easter Break. We hear it's wonderful. It's crazy how different Guatemala is from Belize even though it's right next door eh? Even their fashion is different:) Let me know if there's anything else you think that we should definitely see!
~Trish