Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Week 3
Posted by KB at 05:03 PMOur first week of actual classes was marked with a busy an overwhelming first day but very relaxing weekend. Many of us have very long days Monday and Wednesday (we don’t finish until 4:30 and some of us start at 8:00) and I think that many of us were overwhelmed especially the first day. Although we are getting to be very comfortable with hearing Spanish all the time, there is quite a difference between just a casual conversation or class with professors whose first language was English, and learning history and reading literature with many native speakers as professors. However, every day of class was a little easier and though we are swamped with homework, we are learning a lot. Also we made up for busy Monday and Wednesday’s with very relaxing, long weekends. Almost all of us traveled to vacation spots in Honduras and did little but relax, eat good food, and build relationships. Some went to the Island La Tigra and hung out at the beach, took small boats around the Island or hiked. Another group went to the largest lake in Honduras. It is fun to see the beauty of Honduras and spend time outside of the classroom with each other. Another exciting development of the week was that we now officially have a “Barnabas” leader for a group. Denise Britton, who had a tough decision deciding between doing Barnabas and coming to Honduras was nominated to be a spiritual leader for our group. We have organized a sort of chapel during our 9:30-10:00 break Monday’s and Wednesdays and Denise has been organizing people to give testimonies or devotionals as well as putting together some Spanish songs to sing and a pray list that she sends out to the group every week. I will also be posting our prayer request under the “Prayer Request” heading. We have already accomplished our goal of encouraging one another to grow in our faith and it will be exciting to see what all God does with this little chapel time. 
Some of us relaxing at La Tigra.
A beautiful sunrise!