Just a quick update on the elections yesterday.  Everything went smoothly and the international observers were pleased with the transparency.  Now, we are concentrating on visiting our girls and preparing for next year.  Hopefully things will be a little more stable for next years classes. 

With the girls on their break it has given us time to do a lot of the "catch up" that never gets done while classes are on.  We've rewritten the information manual, begun cleaning the Center, replaced the ripped window screens (a total of 38 !), etc. etc.  It has been a very busy month and time is flying by.  It will soon be time to start up classes again.  We already have over half of our new students for next year and haven't even officially opened registration.

There are only 3 days now until the Honduran national elections.  We are praying that everything will pass peacefully despite all the threats to disrupt and boycott them.  It has been suggested that all North Americans stay in their houses on Sunday, election day, so I have decided to spend the day baking Christmas cookies.

Fortunately it was sunny.  There is no way this amount of people would have fit into the Center for graduation.

Erica and I with the girls after grad

Graduation was on October 30.  It was a special day.  Even though it was raining all over Honduras, here in Trujillo it was sunny and beautiful.  There were between 175 and 200 guests at the Center to celebrate with our graduates.