Mission's Day!

Of all the events here at Agape Christian Academy, Mission's Day blew me away!

Each class from preschool to 11th grade is assigned a country a month prior to the event. They then learn about the demographics, politics, people groups, language, and religions of this country. It becomes a center piece in their learning and a prayer focus in their daily devotions.

The event itself is beautiful. Each class designs costumes and a dance performance to a praise song in that county's language. We saw performances from Thailand, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, Indonesia, and Venezuela just to name a few. My class represented Panama and they did  an excellent job! With the boys dressed in little cowboy hats and the girls in beautiful white and red traditional dresses, they couldn't have looked more adorable.

I was assigned to braid the girls' hair - I think I did nearly 80 braids!

Mrs. Frech and I - She is the girl costume and I am the boy costume

Getting ready to perform

Straight from Panama folks! ;)

Mrs. Membrano and Mrs. Galo - Indonesia

Indonesia - First Grade

Nuestra Champa! Our Tent Display!

Here we sold Panamanian Food and had a cultural display

Animals Gone Wild Series III: Unexpected Geckos in Unexpected Places

It was a typical Thursday afternoon and I was cleaning the classroom after the students left that day.
I after wiping down the tables, filing graded papers, and putting up the chairs, I usually walk around and make sure all the decorations are still in their place.
Today, however, one of the borders around our white board was falling off. I reached to pick it up off the ground and and flipped it over to add more tape to the back. To my great surprise, although the tape was not working very well to hang to the wall, it managed to hang onto something else.....

There, in the middle of a large piece of tape, sat a baby gecko looking as if it were trying to run away!!!!!! Stuck to the masking tape, it was frozen in mid- step.
I was shocked to see this little creature on the other side of our wall decorations! How long had he been there? And..... did we cause his death?

After examining the situation a little more, it looks like we did indeed cause this poor little gecko to see his last day. Probably while walking across our wall, he got stuck along the way.

This is just another intense of  wild animals we see here in Honduras day to day.

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