in gracias.

Finally in Gracias, we’ve started working at the school. The week was spent in orientation and decorating our classrooms full of cheesy posters. I have no idea what I’m doing. Classes start on Monday.

The school is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I don't have an internet connection up on the mountain, and the connection in town is slow, so I'll add photos later.

Jacki and I are supposed to move into this little yellow house up the mountain, but the roof is leaking, so we moved in with Rachel and Laura Beth. Our first few nights there were somewhat traumatic. The house was full of large spiders and various insect species. We quickly learned how to utilize the machete left behind by the previous inhabitant.

I’m a very inexperienced teacher, so I’ve been taking pointers from the teachers around me. Vicente told me that if my kids were bad, I could threaten to send them to China. He said, “They don’t really like the idea of going to China.”