Dear Friends,
Another school year has begun! I am once again teaching 8th and 9th grade. I have eighteen students between the two grades, ten boys and eight girls. I am teaching many of the same classes that I taught last year, but with a few changes. This year I am also teaching biology, geography, and economics. I’ve taught both the geography and the economics before. But I have never taught biology. Based on the first three weeks of school, this will definitely be a challenging year. Please pray for us as my students and I try to do our best! We recently built three new classrooms on the school property. I am so thankful to be able to be assigned one of these classrooms!
For the month of August, I ran a promotion with my bus kids. Any child that was faithful to every service all month was able to go on a special outing with me. This past Sunday, I was able to reward six faithful bus kids. We went out to eat for lunch and had milkshakes. The kids were so excited! Their parents said that it was all they could talk about all week long. Needless to say, they were hyped up on sugar on the way home after the milkshakes. So we rolled the windows down and sang church songs at the top of our lungs all the way home. We had a great time together!
I have also already begun the school year with several adventures. The one that sticks out the most happened right before school started. A fellow missionary teacher and I decided to take one last vacation before the school year started. She had a meeting in northern Honduras, so we decided to make a trip out of it. Let me just begin by saying that I never inherited that internal compass that my dad has. But I have GPS, and I normally have no problems navigating my way around. Unfortunately, on this particular trip, my GPS led me astray. We wound up on a random dirt road filled with potholes, rocks, and ruts, winding our way through the mountains of Honduras. We were stuck on this one lane road with no room to do a U-turn and cliffs on both sides. However, we got to see a lot more of the Honduran countryside than I ever thought I would see. I did get to see how Hondurans grow all sorts of interesting crops on the side of a mountain. We saw coffee plants, beans, bananas, pineapples, corn, sugar cane, and more. Although it was a fascinating experience, the “experience” doubled our travel time from five hours to ten. Thankfully, everything turned out okay since we had planned to arrive a day early for the meeting. We did eventually end up in the right place—just a few hours late!
Thank you so much for your prayers! I am so thankful for each of you!
Ericka Wright
