WORK

So it appears as though I might end up doing something here after all. Everything is definately a process here and finding work is no exception. I am going to start working with a 5th grade class next friday and this week I started going to the aldeas (small communities) to help with the weighing of children and distribution of medicine. From this I think I am going to get alot more work, because there appears to be a real need for education of nutrition and hygene.

I am taking it all one day at a time. Every day is completely different in terms of my emotions. But I am pushing through it and the people that I work with have been great in supporting me. I move into my own place this weekend. This will be another big change for me, it is going to be great I know but going to take alot of getting used to because I only know how to live with families in this country.

I am good, I love you all and appreciate all the support that you have given me.

Countdown

Went to Tela this past weekend to see what I have been missing not living on the beach. Well it started out crazy with me missing my bus so I had to wait most of the day and then went to Ceiba with a girl from the office. I spent the night in her house and the next morning went to Tela to meet my friend that lives near by. We hung out on the beach and then had lunch on a restaurant on right there on the beach, after about a half an hour a guy strolled by on a bike and stole my friends wallet. She started running after him, but didn´t have any luck, from there we went to the police station. When all this was over we just hung out like bums, went to dinner and then went to bed early. The next day we hung out on the beach for a few hours until the heat was just unbearable and I decided to head back early to Morazan... What an adventure!!

So far my time in Honduras has consisted of:

*1 bus ride where a child puked on me

* billions of tortillas

*7 books, 5 of which were in May and the other 2 in June (didn´t read during training)

*2 trips to Pizza Hut

*1 trip to Tela

*3 packages that were sent to me but that I still have not received

*1 year 10 months and a few days till I move back to the states... that is not exact but close enough

and I know there is much more but I have had a brain freeze...

The heat is incredible here and that is not in a good way. I wish I had a thermometer (or whatever that thing is called that tells you the temperature) to know exactly what I was dealing with here. Sweating has become my favorite past time. ITS HOT HERE. I don´t think it gets this hot in the states. I´m really not exaggerating.

JUST NOT THE SAME

Almost 2 months now since arriving in my site. Everyday is different, some good, some bad. There is not a moment that goes by that I am not asking myself what in the heck am I doing here. That is not to say that I am regreting my decision to be here or that I want to go home, all I am saying is, wow this is a different experience.

I am in the process of finding a place to live and it is turning out to be quite a task. I am working with World Vision as of right now, but it is more like I spend alot of time in the offices with not so much work. The phrase poco a poca comes to mind right now, which signifies, little by little. It is such a hard thing to be patient and realize that everything is a process. I am still trying to adapt to certain parts of the lifestyle; like how you are to say hello to every person that you pass on the street or you appear rude, when you go to someones house you stay for hours just talking, and of course time is of no importance here. In the states we are so used to everything being on time and having a schedule, that just does not translate here.

I miss everyone like crazy and wish that you could share this experience with me because I can´t put it into words what it is truly like here. I am becoming very independent and at the same time realizing how much I need people in my life. Life is just nothing without people to share it with. I am really trying to make friends with the people around me, but trust is a hard thing within another culture that I still do not fully understand. Everything in time