sábado, septiembre 24, 2005

WOW

thats all i have to say. WOW. I´ll be the first to admit, i was totally wrong about this game. Wow, top 15 and 4-0 for the revenge game vs. scUM and 5-0 and top 10 for the showdown in Columbus with the Big Ten championship possibly on the line. Amazing.

nervous

well, i hate to constantly talk about sports on here....but o well, im nervous about our game today. a week after a huge win, a week before a huge game...has all the makings of the typical ``sandwich game`` and all the makings to be a huge upset. illinois is a good team, they played Cal incredibly tough on the road. theyve got talent, theyve got a good coach, this is NOT a pushover. I think we should win, but we need to be focused and bring our A game and not be thinking about Notre Dame or Michigan. Well, its about to start. GO STATE!!!!

miércoles, septiembre 21, 2005

la economia

well my amiga leah complained that my blog wasnt a honduras blog, it was a sports blog, so i decided to update with more info.

teaching econ has gone well so far. the admin. seems to be cool with it. the organization at this school is terrible, to be blunt. but the kids arent like poor or disprivledged or whatever, like some1 implied in 1 of the comments. most of them are actually pretty rich, or at the very least, middle class. but really, the only reason they want a lit. class is so the kids practice reading, writing, etc. in english....so i can do that too, while teaching em econ.

a few of em really amazed me with some econ knowledge.....some included things such as direct foreign investment, the WTO, the IMF, TLC(spanish abbreviation for CAFTA) amoung other things in their papers, but 90% are clueless. I had an entire class spend 15 minutes trying to answer the question ¨what is revenue¨when a packet sitting right in front of them did basically everything but spit it out for them. but that was 9th grade, by far the worst grade.

more and more, im starting to really realize that this is my role here. ive got something to really offer these kids....more than just some random gringo who can speak english. ive got stuff i can teach them thatll mean something in their lives, which is a good feeling. cuz all along, Thomas(Bible) and Brad(Bio, Chem) & Megan(Science, Math) have had that. and i kinda was just like....man, grammar and lit are worthless. but now im really glad to teach them econ. i hope someday when some of them go to college and take econ, theyll be ahead of other kids, because of what i taught them.

tho, i dono what Honduran colleges are like, to be totally honest, i think theres very few thatd make it in an american college. most of the students dont take learning or academics seriously.

well thats all for now. to the UVA fan and SU fan fighting on my blog....please stop! :)

lunes, septiembre 19, 2005

thoughts

first off. "John L. Smith will be the best coach in the world¨-Kris Dezelski. I hate to say i told u so.... Good to see the pollsters still dont respect us. 22, good thinking you morons. Still behind ND in both polls. that makes complete sense. It scares me how our offense seemed to just shut down once we got the 21 point lead. All worked out well, but we cant do that against a team like Ohio State. Things are ok here. My lit stories are sooooooooooooo boring, so i decided to start teaching economics, instead. So much more interesting. Were doing readings out of the Honduran Business Travel guide, Forbes, and From Here to Economy. So far, its worked out well, the kids like it more and have asked a lot of good questions. Before we started, i assigned them all an essay....to answer the question ¨How can Honduras become a developed, first world country?¨ ive never seen so many clueless kids in my life. they still havent handed them in. but ive given them class time to work on them and theyre sooooooooooo clueless. its almost sad. but hopefully by June theyre all a bunch of little junior economists. well, thats all for now.

viernes, septiembre 16, 2005

HUGE GAME tomorrow

WOW, am I pumped. Did i not call the 7 point underdog and ND being ranked 10-12th? I think we can take them. I think ND will struggle facing their first good offense of the season. Our defense needs to step up. We cant let Brady pick our secondary apart. and the DL needs to pressure him. But I think we´ll do ok. 27-17 MSU.

sábado, septiembre 10, 2005

GO STATE!

first off, congrats to the Irish on their big win over the most overrated team in the history of college football. it was a good win, but dont think this makes Notre Dame a national championship contender. they really just beat up on a pathetic team that lives on their name and accomplishments of decades ago.

the spartans are looking good against their 2nd straight pop warner opponent. I guess next week we´ll see how good we really are facing Notre Dame on the road. I wouldnt be surprised if Notre Dame cracks the top 10 after this week. Maybe not, but id imagine theyll at least be around 12 or so. I think the Vegas line will probably have us as about a 7 point underdog, but I think we´ll be able to take them, if we can find a way to cover ND´s receivers. should be a good game, hopefully i find a way to watch it on TV.

I see that Javon Ringer has been breaking out some pretty sweet runs. How does this guy look? Hes supposed to be incredibly fast.

weve got cable now. but to our surprise, there was no ABC, NBC, or CBS. We do get ESPN, which is good....but it leaves us 3 channels short of the ones we wanted. My friends down here(megan and brad) get the 3 networks. Were not sure why they do, and we dont, but im gonna call the cable company on monday and see what they say. Tonight, im going to Megan and Brad´s house to watch the Ohio State-Texas game. its very nice of them to invite me to watch the game at their apartment, but i hope we can get the situation fixed soon, cuz i dont want to intrude on them too often.

thats all for now. the Spartans are leading 35-0 and on their way to their second straight lopsided victory. Notre Dame countdown: 7 days.

go get em Irish!!!!

well, im ¨watching¨here in the internet cafe. the Irish lead scUM 17-3!!! just to note....

5 or so weeks ago....i told my friend Doc that scUM sucked, and had no business being in the top 20 of the country....let alone the fricken top 5....those pollsters should have their own show on comedy central.

5 or so weeks ago....i told my friend Bone(an ND guy) that the Irish would take care of scUM this fall. even as an ND fan, he didnt believe me.

well here we are....9 or so minutes away from ND beating scUM. they wont fall out of the top 20 after this loss(if ND hangs on) but theyre sure to after they lose more in the next few weeks.

HAHHAHA, number three in the country. those pollsters shouldnt even be allowed to watch college football for being that pathetic.


viernes, septiembre 09, 2005

CRAZINESS IN HONDURAS

hahaha. they strike in an interesting way down here. the govt wanted to raise gas prices like a $1.00 per gallon. so the taxis and busses decide to strike. and not only do they strike....they just park their cars and busses in the middle of the road, at an angle so the whole road gets blocked, and just leave them there. we got 2 days off as the entire country basically shut down for 2 days. people got all mad, started flipping the cars and setting them on fire. it was insain!! i wanted to take pictures, but i dont have a camera. so for pictures u can visit www.meganandbrad.blogspot.com

tomorrow, ill be headed to the internet cafe in the morning to ¨watch¨ our game. GO STATE!!!

lunes, septiembre 05, 2005

GO STATE!

who else saw MSU´s sweet victory on Sat? well, i shouldnt say i ´saw´ it cuz all i saw was the score changing on a computer screen, but it sounded like we played great. i cant wait to rip on Big Kris for his silly comments about John L. I wonder what Big Kris will be saying when the Spartans win 9 or 10 games and go to a New Years Day bowl.

The Olympia-Motagua game was sweet. Soccer fans are so sweet. i cant even imagine a game in a soccer crazy country like England or Argentina. Has to just be amazing. Who else saw the US dominate Mexico 2-0 in a world cup qualifying match sat? it was pretty flippin sweet. u know its some crazy times when the best rapper in the world is white, the best golfer in the world is black, the best center in the NBA is chinese, and the 5th best soccer team in the world is the USA.

other than that, things are good. my classes are boring. theres a set of 20 ´where the red fern grows´in the library here, i read that in 5th grade....and cried like a school girl at the end. man, i was such a pansy. well, im gonna have my students read that, cuz the current lit books are fricken boring.

well, im gonna walk back to the house, get some dinner, and watch the Family Guy. Hope all is well in the Estados Unidos

sábado, septiembre 03, 2005

first test of homesickness

well right now, the Spartans are playing their first football game of the season, and here I am sitting in an internet cafe in Plaza Mira Flores more than 2000 miles from home, constantly fiddling nervously and checking everything thats happening on cnnsi.com. We currently lead 7-0 early in the first quarter. ill probably sit here through the entire game. Especially since this internet cafe only costs me about a $1 per hour. Im sure some of you that read this are at the game. I hope that you´re cheering extra loud for me and know that I wish i was there with you.

On a similar note, tomorrow i get to experience my first real latin american futbol game. Olympia plays Motagua. Theyre huge rivals and their fans hate each other. its going to be sweet. YES!!! TOUCHDOWN JEHUU CAULCRICK!!!! THE SPARTANS LEAD 14-0 with 8:00 to go in the 1st quarter. sounds like this is gonna be a blowout....but i dont wanna speak too soon.

other than that....school is going ok. teaching is pretty easy, most of my students are pretty cool.

I get nervous everytime i see ¨Stanton rushed for¨ thats all we need is him to get hurt again. Stay in the pocket and throw the ball away. PLEASE DREW!

Well, ill update again at the end of the game, probably. GO STATE!!!!!