Slumdog Millionaire and Men

April 26, 2009

I just got finished watching Slumdog Millionaire. I thought it was quite excellent and for any of you who are looking for a good movie recommendation I would recommend Slumdog Millionaire. It is almost already May and we are preparing for Mother’s Day at the school. I wish I was more creative and had all sorts of ideas but slowly but surely we are making progress. Our seventh graders got back today from SAG so we had a welcome home party with cake and juice for them with all the parents so it was fun to hear about their experience. After reading some of Micah’s blogs I like how he talks about particular issues of the culture.

One issue that is big here that effects me is the issue of being a macho guy. Now in the states this is an issue as well but it seems to be a bigger thing here then there for some reason. In Honduras there is this feeling that all guys are the same and might act nice to a girl but all they want is sex. Having a ring on a finger doesn’t always seem like it means very much. I was sitting and talking to some guys and they heard I was in Belize and their first question was how many girls I had sex with there. I proceeded to tell them I was only there for one day. They looked at me like “so what?” I then had to tell them zero. They then proceeded to harass me a bit about it. This is something quite common with guys. When you look at all of the young single moms around town you see the effects of it as well. These things come with me into class as well. My kids are quite young but once and a while they will let a derogative word about girls slip. Also if there is ever a fight between a boy and girl I tend to side with the girl and tell the boy to treat the girl well. (Normally it is the boys fault anyhow) In this community there is a real lack of good role models for the young boys. Many just have a mom and the dad is gone so the way they grow up is quite difficult.