Buueeenaaaaaaaaaaassss

Rain rain GO AWAY… don’t come again another day because it is just way TOO MUCH for me! And I thought I liked rain. Hmph.

About our vacation and visit from my mom and sisiter: we went to Copan Ruinas for a few days and had a great time! We arrived to Copan in the afternoon (it was sweltering!) and spent the day walking around town, shopping for souvenirs, and visiting some of the town museums. The next day we went to the Mayan Ruins where we saw some pretty incredible architecture, tunnels, and carvings. I wasn’t feeling too well so we had a pretty relaxed day – I needed to prepare for our next adventure – which was a day of horseback riding, learning about coffee and cardamom, and swimming in hot springs. We went to a coffee and cardamom farm called Finca El Cisne where a man named Carlos took us all around his farm. We rode horses for about three hours all over his property learning about coffee and the various other things growing on his farm. We tried star fruit, pineapples, and fresh coconuts (the water and the flesh). On the farm, we had a delicious lunch and visited the place where they process the coffee. It started to rain pretty hard, but we still went around the farm and then went to the hot springs. We were pretty soaked by the time we got to the hot springs because we had to ride in the back of a pickup truck to get there. All were soaked except for my mom because she rode in the cabin! The next day, we went to Los Sapos for a canopy tour – zip lining! It was amazing! The lines are pretty high up and two of them are over a kilometer long! It was such a good time and there were some incredible views of the city of Copan and the Mayan Ruins. After all our fun in Copan we went to La Esperanza for a couple of days – where we visited public baths. We didn’t bathe, but we looked around and took lots of pictures. It looked like a little playground/park. Then my mom and sis came to Colomoncagua!! They met a lot of people here and, I think, had a pretty good time. We got to see the high school students dance in a dance competition and we went to a waterfall that is near where we live (by the time we got home we were, again, soaking wet because there was so much rain!). There was also a hurricane warning while they were here, so we had quite a bit of rain! Sadly, they had to leave so I went with them to San Pedro Sula where we had lunch at McDonalds (we had to try it!) and did some last minute souvenir shopping. The next day they left (from San Pedro) and I had to head to Tegucigalpa.

I am so happy that they came to visit and that they came to see where and how Brian and I live. They also experienced the bus rides, the food, and all the rain that we get down here! And a little scare – an airplane crashed at the Teguc airport. But now they are back home and I am just a little sad

Things are already back to normal – we are teaching Educatodos and waiting for the second set of text books. We are also still waiting for the students’ completion certificates from last school year (they have been working on them for months now!). We are also trying to schedule a creative projects program with another elementary school. We are teaching an English class and will start Project Citizen in the high school soon.

Remember the crafts class we were supposed to give? The one that took us over a month to prepare for? The one that I made a bajillion craft projects for? They cancelled on us!! It was supposed to be on a Tuesday and they told us Monday morning that it was cancelled. I wasn’t really looking forward to it, but I was a little upset that they cancelled.

The rain has really started. They past two weeks have been pretty much straight rain in our site – in the mornings is doesn’t really rain, but by afternoon it is really wet. The thing that really gets me is the gloom. Some mornings have sunshine, but not too much. This kind of depresses me. And it also doesn’t help dry our clothes at all! Brian wants to figure out how to make a dryer – maybe we can construct something with my hair dryer? Any ideas? Since we have so much rain – our yard is turning into a forest! We dug up some of the weeds/trees/plants/flowers/and other greenery today, but we barely put a dent in it. Next project: how to build a lawn mower.

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