The End

Nathaniel and I would like to inform any viewers and followers e have left that we will no longer be using this blog, as it is no longer working correctly. We now have a new blog, which you can find at www.nathanielandmallori.blogspot.com. Notice that we have reversed the order of our names from the current URL. If you follow this blog, please discontinue, and follow the new one. Thanks!!!

You Betta Belize it!

I recently had quite the adventure traveling with my friend, Amanda, to Belize to renew our passports. Central America has this silly rule that you must travel at least 2 countries away and stay for at least 48 hours in order to renew your visa for another 90 days. So, we packed our bags and set out for Placencia, Belize.

To make a long story short, 10 buses, 4 boats, and 2 taxis later, we arrived at our destination. It took us a full 12 hours to get there! We were so exhausted! I wish I could put up some pictures of the peninsula known as Placencia, because it was SO BEAUTIFUL. However, since I can't, you'll have to check out my profile on Facebook to see them.

We had a great time hanging out on the beach, eating at the local "De'Tach" restaurant, or trying to understand the Creole that the locals were speaking.

All in all, it was a great trip, even though we got stuck in San Pedro (about 2 hours away from home) because we got there too late and there were no buses running to Sigua that night. So, we ended up missing an additional day of school which would not have been avoided.

We got back to school on Wednesday, taught for one day, then learned that the school was going to be closed until after semana santa due to a throat virus that is running rampant in the school. Please pray for the health and safety of all the students and staff.

God Bless you all!

The Beach!

I have decided, as you can see, to update this thing despite the technical difficulties I am having. A lot has been going on recently, both at the school and outside of it. Last weekend, me, Nathaniel, and 2 of our friends (amanda and amanda) FINALLY got to go the beach!!! I planned the whole trip, since it was my turn, and I decided we should go to a remote carribbean beach. I chose a remote place because it gets you out away from the pollution so the water actually looks blue, not brown. It was SO beautiful. You can see pictures on my facebook account. The best part was that the weather channels all said it was supposed to rain, but praise the Lord, it turned out to be a gorgeous day!

At school, things are down to the normal daily grind. We are about 1/2 way through partial 3, and its nothing out of the ordinary. I let my kids watch Cars (the movie) this week, but this time with English subtitles instead of Spanish. It was cool to see them translate phrases they knew, and get excited because they could understand something.

Personally, I've been having a good time here. It was great to get our of sigua for a weekend and see something new again. We also recently discovered that Sigua has a great public pool, so we will definitely be hitting that up from now on! March is going to be a busy busy month, with having to take a trip to Belize to renew passports, My parents visiting for Semana Santa, Nathaniel's parents visiting the week after that, etc etc. I Can't wait!!

I'm not sure what's going on...

I just want to inform everyone that I really do want to update this thing, but for some reason, they have removed all the links to add pictures, videos, or anything else cool. I;m not sure what's going on with it, but I'm going to try to update it to the latest version. In the meantime, you can check out my school blog at www.destinodelreinoenglish.blogspot.com

Thanks, and sorry!