Back in La Palma


I arrived in San Salvador last Thursday, spent the weekend at the beach with my "tias" and my "primo." We had a wonderful time, minus the part where Joel got sick. I came back to La Palma Monday afternoon. I got my suitcases in my room and immediately left to go find some people that I had definitely missed over the holidays. We had worship service Monday night so I got to visit with a few more people then. After that back to the room to get better aquainted with my new roommate, Bessie.

Tuesday I found out that this year, I get my own classroom. I teach English and typically I go to each grade and teach in their classroom. This year, they will be coming to my class. I'm super excited about this and have been trying to decorate the room and prepare it for a new year of classes. I was a little concerned because I was told I wasn't going to have a marker board. I've become quite spoiled and am not sure I know how to teach without a marker board. God provides. This time he provided in the way of hermano Jose. Jose is our local preacher here and he's always busy trying to help out in every situation. He said the church had a marker board that they werent using. He even helped me move the board and hang it. So the classroom is starting to look like a classroom. Gracias Jose!

I had a lot of things I wanted to work on today, but Ive been foolish since my return. I haven't been eating food with caution and making sure that its prepared with clean water. I was sick all last night and spent the majority of today resting. I'm not 100% better yet, but definitely an improvement from this morning. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can go back to working on the classroom and go back to eating again.

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