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...so I know how mad everyone is about my hiatus from the blog...but my school work has been taking up ALL of my free time and then some! No more will I take two classes online at the same time!

Anyway...I just want to say...GO COLTS!! All of you know how much I love my team and now so does everyone in Honduras! Today I left in the middle of the game so that I could go with some of the other officers to visit the orphanage that we sponsor. It was such a humbling and moving experience. These are some of the most beautiful children I have ever seen and...truthfully...I had been avoiding going because I was afraid I would fall in love with the kids...and I did! They are so grateful and innocent and they think I'm hilarious! Any gringa that shows up decked out in Colts gear head to toe and speaks the worst Spanish ever has to make you laugh I guess! So I have to get back to the old homework, but I just wanted to take the opportunity to share some photos from my visit with all of you.

Also, we are trying to get some items together for them for their Christmas stockings. There are approximately 130 children from 18 months - 18 years old (boys and girls) that live here, so if anyone has good ideas, please respond to this post. I love you all and I hope your Thanksgiving is fantastic. We are confined to the base due to the national election that is going to take place on Sunday and the dangers that may come about as a result. I appreciate your prayers and I will blog again this week after I run the 5k Turkey run tomorrow morning. For those of you who don't know...this run should be a piece of cake for me because I got tricked into running the entire perimeter of the base last week (which is all mud, gravel, and hills) with the other officers. My gazelle-like female friends failed to show, but I managed to finish the 6.75 mile run in 1:13. I have never run more than 4 miles without stopping, so this run was a big accomplishment for me...always trying to see the humor in everything, upon completion of the run I collapsed at the feet of the vice wing commander and croaked, "Sir, the perimeter is secure!" oh he got a kick out of that...;)

So gobble gobble...I hope we don't have to run like turkeys, but it should be fun.

...Jane...out...