A little more...

Hey all, here's what we've been doing this week.
We've had to get up pretty early to get up to the school by 8 am to decorate our classrooms, but two of them are locked and others have a lot of stuff in them...we've done as much as possible so far. We usually have to stay until 3, so we've been pretty bored up at the school. There's so much that needs to be done before we start teaching, but it's really hard to know where to begin. For lunch we usually eat at a "comedor," which is someone's house across the street from the school. Then we go down the road, check how our house is coming and go down to the river. We're getting really anxious/excited to move into our house because we're still at the hotel eating at the hotel restaurant. It's been good, but we're ready to move on.

Sometimes I feel like a naturalist in the 19th century looking at new plants and insects and trying to learn what they are, but some things are really familiar, like straight and tall pine trees that look like red pines, oak trees that remind me of burr oak and even monarch butterflies among the cornfields. There are a lot of new sights, too. Outside of the classroom windows, there is a wall of green, and the school yard has an amazing view of green mountains with clouds swirling around the peaks and a waterfall in the distance.

Tonight we got to spend the evening at some hot springs just outside the city with all of the foreign teachers plus Honduran teachers and administrators. We got to play volleyball in the pool and have a potluck with steak on the grill; it felt almost like a family gathering, so that was fun. It was cool to see fireflies, stars and lightening in the distance all at the same time as we sat in natural hot tubs.

Oh, and one more thing. We found our wedding pictures online, so you can take a look if you'd like. Go to http://www.kleinphotography.com/, click online ordering, weddings, then Leah and Aren. You have to put in your email address, and then you should be able to see our pictures. We're pretty happy with how they turned out, there are some really nice ones.