Tropical Storm

Written September 25, 2010 (the power's been out a lot here)

Yes, I know there was a tropical storm that came through Honduras. I’m not sure if it ever ended up becoming a hurricane or not, but that’s just because I didn’t care enough to find out. We do have some modern conveniences, like television, so we are able to hear news of the outside world, unless the power is out. We really didn’t get any more rain than usual. We had a lot of threatening clouds but nothing too exciting. In fact, this is probably one of few places I would actually want to be in Honduras during a hurricane. I would be more worried about flooding in the big cities, as well as mass chaos should something ever happen. Also, we’re so far inland and so high up in the mountains that the only thing I would legitimately worry about is a landslide, but even that is pretty unlikely.

The girls and I have traveled for the last two weekends in a row. The weekend of the 18^th we went to Gracias, which is about 3 ½ hours away and one of the closest towns to us. It was nice to see the other teachers at the Vida Abundante School there, including my friend Justin whom I studied with in Mexico and is now teaching in Gracias. The next week was a short week due to Independence Day and Teacher’s Day (yes, I think we actually are appreciated here) so we traveled to the Mayan ruins in Copan from Wednesday until Saturday and then headed to Santa Rosa de Copan for Saturday night. The ruins were fantastic and really made me want to go to Guatemala to see the ruins in Tikal. If I go there I will have hit all the major Mayan ruin sites, which would be pretty sweet. The town of Copan is also really nice, and it was amazing to have clean water for a few days. Also, while I was there I treated myself to a 4 hour private Spanish lesson to refresh my memory on the usage of the subjunctive. I’m not even going to lie, I loved every minute of it. Maybe that’s why I’m considering getting my master’s in Spanish…

Other than that life has settled into a nice routine. Besides getting a lovely amoeba this week everything has been fantastic. I’m feeling much better after visiting the clinic here in town. My principal even drove me there, paid for my visit because I didn’t have enough cash with me and drove me home because he’s pretty fantastic like that. Thankfully, I was not nearly as sick as I was in Mexico. Today (Saturday) I bummed around the house and watched Star Trek with Holly, then we went our student’s soccer games at 12:30, headed to visit our friend Saira who is back home for a visit from college in San Pedro Sula, went to a Christian women’s fraternity meeting and then ate baleadas over at Saira’s parent’s house. After dinner we came back home and watched How to Train Your Dragon, which, by the way, is a fantastic movie. Life here is pretty chill, but I still feel like there’s always something to do. Hopefully I still feel that way in six months!