Mission Trip To Roatan, Honduras

I just returned from a two week visit to Roatan, Honduras. Our mission was to help the government schools on the island. We visited many schools from one end of the island to the other. Our visit began on the West End at Sandy Bay where we visited the Sand Castle After School care and library. Cam O'Brien is an awesome administrator and we worked with one of her helpers. The children there loved their computer lab. The lab had about seven computers with internet access in one area and two more computers in another area. The students completed homework using the computers as well as played games online. I had the privilege of showing the students how to play connect four and battleship while my son and his friend built what they called a Catapult. The children enjoyed shooting coconuts across the beach.

Then we were off to a small private school in French Harbor. We are hoping to Skype with this school soon. The high school principal only has one student who is learning basic programming skills. I am hoping to teach game design soon so maybe we will be able to Skype then. Or maybe he will be interested in web design and we could Skype during one of our lessons.

Next we were off to Pandy Town near Oak Ridge. The school is held in a Methodist Church. This was the first school that the students from Norfolk Christian visited. Our students enjoyed teaching math, science, English, Bible and singing. They all enjoyed recess where the boys were able to play soccer and the girls painted the little girls finger nails. The school administrator stated they had 5 computers; however, they were unable to install them due to security issues. She is hoping to acquire land and build a new school up on the hill near their concrete soccer court.

And finally the highlight of my trip was the school in Diamond Rock. We drove past this school several times, but the school seemed vacant. We visited Camp Bay Resort to drop off our scuba divers and spoke with one of the cooks and found out the school was open. We dropped by unannounced to see if we would be able to help in any way. I worked a little with reading English while one of the students at the school read the same book in Spanish then onto a math lesson before I was pulled to the computer lab. This lab had eleven computers and an A/C. I was in heaven. I did not try to teach too much computer simply because to be honest, I was in shock. I am hoping to take some conversational Spanish before next year in hopes of spending more time in this school.

In conclusion, our trip was a huge success. The Skype adventure will help Norfolk Christian meet our goals of connecting globally and the mission trip should become an annual event. Until next post . . . .