I thank you God for most this amazing day......

Hello from the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras!

I am sitting here in my classroom at the International School, with a beautiful view of the city below, happily contemplating the events of the last three days. I arrived just fine on Wendesday and was able to meet up with most of the first year teachers in Houston. The flight landing into the "bowl" was exciting and hilarious as before and the moment I stepped outside of the airport I took a deep breath and felt so happy being back in Honduras. To make matters even better, it rained the first night which of course put me in high spirits.
We had a wonderful reception from our collegues at the International Schoo, complete with traditional dances and warm hugs. Since then, we have been shuttled to orientation everyday since classes start about one week from today for most of us. In case I didn't mention it to you, I will be teaching 10th and 11th grade English,Drama, Media,and Speech ( I know, I just found out myself). I would greatly appreciate your prayers since I know I have so much to learn about being a teacher and mentor to the students in my class. I would also request that you pray that God may give me patience as I have felt frustration about being oriented as just another North American foreigner and as many of you already know I struggle to see how I fit into these different molds that I always find too limiting.
I am been overwhelmed, encouraged, challenged, and invigorated in many ways already and everyday I find another reason for why I know I am supposed to be here. I am also reminded of one of my favorite poems as I reflect on the awe and wonder I feel about what God is doing in my life and in the rest of the world and creation.

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of allnothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

by E.E. Cummings

I wish I could talk to you all and I hope this can be just one means through which we communicate ( skype, think skype). I think of so many of you often and the ways that God has used you to do a good thing in my life. Thank-you for caring and loving me.

Mucho amor