Honduras Trip - Day 3

The last day we were in Honduras, the Allen's took us to where their oldest boys attend school. It's called The International School and the website is www.internationalschool.hn if you would like to check it out. It's a private christian school that's close to their house and we were very impressed with it!

Front gate to the school with guards. The school is on the top of a mountain!

New soccer field

Lunch / Snack area

The front sidewalk of the school

High school building. Kids graduate with a Honduran and American diploma. It's an English school where all the main subjects are taught in English, but the extras are taught in Spanish. Music, art, PE, etc. are in Spanish. And most of the kids who attend are Hondurans so Spanish is the language spoken in the hallways and lunchroom.

Beautiful view from a sidewalk of the school

Picture of the front gate with the guard

After visiting the school, we went to a family's store in a nearby town. The Allen's were purchasing some items from this store for a mission team coming down, and they warned us about this town. The people we met were nice, but they said it was a very rough area full of gangs. Not a good place to be when the sun goes down.

Nice view up there though

Only one road up and down through this town

Back in the city, passed a musical band playing in the back of a truck

And on to lunch with the Allen's and Zelaya's at a restaurant called El Patio. All Will wanted was a steak called "El Conquistador"

There it is...what a happy guy...he ate the whole thing

Last we went to a cool park at the top of a mountain. If you can't tell, it seems the whole country of Honduras is one mountain after another, so everything is pretty much at the top of different mountains. This park was full of pine trees!

Unbelievable views from up there...see the crazy airport runway in the middle? Tegucigalpa is the second most dangerous airport in the world because of the difficulty of landing the plane. Pilots have to have a special license to be able to fly into this city. There just isn't a straight scientific way to land the planes and they have to turn continuously before landing on a short runway. Here's a link to a crazy video of an airplane landing in Tegucigalpa: http://youtu.be/v_z5HtME9n8

Of course...rain rolling in

A few years ago, homes were destroyed and lives were lost as an enormous mudslide happened during a hurricane. Homes were never rebuilt, and now you can just see the grassy area where the tragedy happened. Costa Rica doesn't have hurricanes...I guess Honduras does.

Family pic overlooking the city of Tegucigalpa

Huge Jesus statue on the mountain overlooking the city

Jack loved this park and climbed and played everywhere. He said it looked like Narnia.

Then we had a foggy, dreary and rainy drive back down the mountain to the Allen's house. That's just life in rainy season in Latin America. We had a great trip and the Allen's were wonderful for letting us stay with them and see their life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

We are still praying and exploring the real possibility of us moving to Honduras to work after our year of language school is finished in August. Please pray for us to have wisdom in this process and for doors to be opened where God wants us to go. We are excited about what lies ahead!