Someone turned the water off...

So we have no running water at the moment. we discovered this when we got back from our first full day teaching, sweaty, tired, basically dead on our feat, longing for a cold, refreshing shower by none was to be had.
After our lesson prep the next day we headed home to discover the water was back on, we did our washing, Mali jumped in the shower and I followed after, 2 minutes in as i was putting shampoo all over my hair the water turns to a trickle, then nothing..
Having to use drinking water to wash is nt ideal but walking around with a hairstyle not unlike Edward scissor hands was worse. Out came the so far unused cooking pan and my hair was restored to normal.
My first full day teaching went by without too much bother. I stumbled only once when confused as to what an antecedent was in 6th grade grammar. Having done higher English I thought I was prepared to teach 11 year olds English as a their second language. Apparently not. They ended up teaching me more than I taught them. I can only improve on that lesson!
First grade is the hardest to teach imagine teaching a primary 1 class about ecosystems and animals, now imagine they speak no English. That's my challenge. They're a great group of kids, but this is definitely my most draining class.

In all my life I have never seen children eat so many sweets. before class, during, at lunch break and after, constantly eating sweets of all descriptions. Mali and I were offered an abundance on out first day and have decided, instead of eating them, we'll collect and see over a period of time how many we can amass. Our total, after one day, sits at 10 sweets, a chocolate bar and the last bite of a snickers.

Unfortunately, our toilet situation remains the same.

Having been warned that men in Honduras hiss at women to get their attention I was intrigued to see of they actually did. It's true. In San Pedro we were hissed at many times in our very, very short stay, sometimes followed by 'hola guapa'. Here, in Trinidad, it's more of a tongue click, followed by 'hola guapa', it's strange, and a little flattering, but mostly strange... As we're new to Trinidad everyone, and I mean everyone watches you. Waking down the street to school, all eyes are on you, cars slow down as they pass you and the mototaxi's cross over to your side of the road; just to see the gringas in town.

Breakfast today was.. Interesting. It was composed of frijoles (beans that accompany pretty much every meal here), mantequilla (almost like sour cream), queso (cheese, but almost like feta), a kind of ham that had been cooked like bacon and of course tortilla. It wasn't my favourite, but it was edible. The combinations were strange and I suppose it'll just take time to get used to the different ways of eating! But for now, cereal for breakfast will do me nicely.

My 2nd grade class are great! Today I was teaching them grammar, the difference between 'is' and 'are'. For example 'The ants are playing basketball.' I drew some ants playing basketball on the board, the rest of the lesson was spent drawing ants in various guises, it was fun and the kids finally know the difference between are and is!!

Our water's back on thankfully. It's seems to be a bit temperamental. Going off at odd times and coming back in after an inconsistent period of time, not quite what we're used to in Scotland but its running water!