Classes

That's a picture of my family when we went to the zoo---->>

Today is the first day of classes. I just turned in my final essay for our introductory 2 credit class that ended on Friday. Lots of things are changing now. I don't ever have class on fridays which is awesome and I have 18 credits now. I'm taking Latin American Culture, LA literature, Poverty & Development, and Cultural Contact. As of today, I may have added one more called Música Latinoamericana Contempoanea. It will count for my arts core at Calvin so 2 others and myself decided we are going to check it out. It's taught in the local University here and the entire class will be a bunch of Hondurans and 3 gringos. I'm quite afraid to do this actually haha. The course syllabus actually says that we have to do presentations in front of class. The class meets from 7-8pm monday-wednesday. We're going tonight to check it out and see how much we can understand.

What else is new...

OH, yesterday I went to see a fútbol game in the stadium! It was INTENSE. The fans were literally insane. They had awesome cheers and pretty much were screaming the entire game. Once in a while you would see a gap open up in the crowd and then hear a SUPER loud BANG which was a firework and then everyone would rush back into the gap and jump in the smoke. When a goal was scored everyone rushed to the bottom off the stadium and then back up to the top. After the game, fans for Montagua and Fans for Olympia always fight (Hundreds of people). The sections for the diehard fans aren't allowed to leave until like 30 minutes after the game so that normal people can get to safety. Some people just come to the games to fight afterwards. Tons and tons of police surround the stadium to prevent people from getting hurt, but it can be pretty bad afterwards. My host-brother says he's never been to the championship games because it's too violent and people always get hurt. I don't know if anyone has seen the movie Green Street Hooligans, but no joke that movie is real life here in Honduras.