After a little more then 19 hours in the air, I have made it to Copan! Honduras is a beautiful country and I am so blessed to get to experience this. So far the things that have stood out to me are, free roaming cattle and horses, they will just like be walking up the side or middle of the road with no feces or people watching them, and also the people seem more free spirited, the way they drive is crazy, I saw guys hanging out windows, people packed into the back of trucks, people jumping out of busses while they are still moving. I saw a bus stop and people ran up to it with baskets of stuff to sell to the people on board, the currency is really cool it is called lumpa sp*.
It is very mountainous and green and lots of trees and rivers and farms, Copan is surrounded by coffee farms so I am excited to drink lots of great amazing coffee. The food here so far has been amazing, I have only had an orange and what I was told is the equivalent to the hot dog in America, of course it is not a hot dog, but they said it is eaten commonly like a hot dog is, it was a tortilla with black bean some cheese and egg in it, and it was amazing! The place where we at this was in a persons house, Its like a restaurant that the locals would eat at, they have “normal” restaurants also but I have not seen one yet. I am excited to experience more of the local food and customs here.
We (interns) are staying in a three-bedroom apartment on this really cool property that apparently has a monkey living on it, we heard him making lots of noise when we first got here. There are 4 girls, three of which are from Colorado and one from Canada! Then three boys, myself and the other two are from Argentina and El Salvador, so we have a great mix of people from the Americas! The three boys are sharing a room that has two beds and the girls are split between the other two rooms. We only have one bathroom which I feel won’t bother me at all because I am used to that ☺.
The city is peaceful and small, it is very hilly and has a lot of stone roads, the people who drive are nuts and will fly right past you, but that is how it is here so you just can’t get hit. I was told the only driving rule is “don’t hit the person in front of you” which I like.
There are lots of kids here and they love outsiders and will run up and say hi right when they see you, and everyone seems really friendly.
I am already being challenged with Spanish, a majority of the people here know English so communication has not been a challenge yet. The two male room mates I have 1st language is Spanish so they have been correcting me on all my attempts at the Language, I feel I will have it going in a couple of weeks.
The summer camps are done in English and we are supposed to speak to the kids in English so that they can practice, but that won’t stop me from trying my best to learn a new language while I have this opportunity! God is amazing and I cannot believe that I am here after a year of planning! It is so exciting!
Friday, 9 July 2010
july 2nd
July 2, 2010 was one of the best days I have ever had in a very long time. Today we went down to the river to this spot where you can jump off some cliffs and swim around. We spent about 6 hours at the river just playing with the youth and messing around.
In this picture, we all coated ourselves in mud and crawled up the river bank like zombies, the video will be on my
face book if you want to watch it.
These are some of our youth swimming out in the middle of the river. The cliffs in the back are where you can jump into the river, it’s only deep enough in one spot so you have to be careful, but it was amazingly a lot of fun!
In this picture, we all coated ourselves in mud and crawled up the river bank like zombies, the video will be on my
face book if you want to watch it.
We also had the opportunity to burry emma in sand. And then made it look like a grave with her in it, and we were pretending to be very upset about this.
The boys started to attack me here and I was trying to fight them off, but I ended up with lots of sand in my eyes :(
july 1st
July 1, 2010 falls on a Thursday this year. Today was a lot of fun, we started the day later then we have been all week with a 25-minuet walk to our campsite! Showing up at 10 to prepare, clean, and plan out some stuff for Monday! My room to do my adventure class is actually the biggest room that we have access to, I am sharing a room with the cooking class and we rotate days that we do our class, I have Monday and Wednesday I believe.
I ate lunch with Emma at San Rafael of course, I need to venture to other places for lunch, but for now I really enjoy this place and the people that work there know me now. Not to mention the Oreo coffee is amazing.
After lunch we planned out our skit for this next Friday, I am beardo, my outfit is having lots of hair sticking out of my shirt and arms and what not, and my power is pulling hair out of my chest (string) and wrapping people with it, I can also growl really loud and it blows people away.
The afternoon and night was spent with out youth who will be working by our side this summer, we had the first ever Copan sleep over, which is unheard of in this culture. It was a lot of fun, we played games to learn each others names, their responsibilities at camp and also did a mini day at camp to show them what it will be like. The kids, Rachel, Obed and Amner stayed at the office the whole night but the rest ended up back at the house late in the night.
This was also the first time I have ever gone without access to drinking water, the house was out of water, the office was out of water and all the stores were closed. It was an interesting feeling and I never thought about the fact that I have never been without water. 1 billion people on our planet do not have access to clean water and I have a really hard time comprehending that in my mind.
July 2, 2010
Morning came around and we walked back down to the office to eat lunch with the youth and play a few more games. The kids were so tired and ready to go home. After all the learning that needed to be done was done we sent them home and returned to our house where we laid on the tile floor all afternoon.
The city was without water and electricity from 7am until around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, I don’t really know when it came back on because I woke up and the fans were turning!
Friday has been really relaxing and all we had to do today was spend a couple of hours finalizing plans for our first week of camp. Later tonight we are going to watch Dwayne (our camp director) play guitar at a restaurant while we eat dinner.
2 days till camp starts!!!
I ate lunch with Emma at San Rafael of course, I need to venture to other places for lunch, but for now I really enjoy this place and the people that work there know me now. Not to mention the Oreo coffee is amazing.
After lunch we planned out our skit for this next Friday, I am beardo, my outfit is having lots of hair sticking out of my shirt and arms and what not, and my power is pulling hair out of my chest (string) and wrapping people with it, I can also growl really loud and it blows people away.
The afternoon and night was spent with out youth who will be working by our side this summer, we had the first ever Copan sleep over, which is unheard of in this culture. It was a lot of fun, we played games to learn each others names, their responsibilities at camp and also did a mini day at camp to show them what it will be like. The kids, Rachel, Obed and Amner stayed at the office the whole night but the rest ended up back at the house late in the night.
This was also the first time I have ever gone without access to drinking water, the house was out of water, the office was out of water and all the stores were closed. It was an interesting feeling and I never thought about the fact that I have never been without water. 1 billion people on our planet do not have access to clean water and I have a really hard time comprehending that in my mind.
July 2, 2010
Morning came around and we walked back down to the office to eat lunch with the youth and play a few more games. The kids were so tired and ready to go home. After all the learning that needed to be done was done we sent them home and returned to our house where we laid on the tile floor all afternoon.
The city was without water and electricity from 7am until around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, I don’t really know when it came back on because I woke up and the fans were turning!
Friday has been really relaxing and all we had to do today was spend a couple of hours finalizing plans for our first week of camp. Later tonight we are going to watch Dwayne (our camp director) play guitar at a restaurant while we eat dinner.
2 days till camp starts!!!
june 30th
June 30, 2010 Tuesday felt like the longest day ever! We started at 8 am today with a walk out of town to the river. We discussed prayer life and what it looks like to us, different levels of prayer and how as you grow close to Christ your prayer life changes. We were then challenged to go off alone and pray with meditation and silence. My experience doing this was wonderful, the song as the deer came into my head. I repeated this song in my head as often as I could remember to, while I tried to stay silent and listen to what God had for me. As I stood on this island in the middle of this river surrounded by green tropical mountains covered with clouds all I could think about was how amazing God’s creation is. I saw a tree who’s foundation had been eroded by the river, This tree still stood over 80 feet tall and was as green as any other tree. Half the tree was laying in the river with it’s roots exposed, still alive and full of trees! The remainder of the trunk still upright was in shambles and you could see strait through the tree in several spots, but it survived!
God reassured me that He is in control of everything, I saw lots of life happening on this river, this tree was dropping it’s fruits to the ground like bombs while butterflies were dancing around, ants carrying leaves that were 20 times their size relentlessly up dirt hills without giving up, Many birds and horses cows and the local Honduran people. But the common theme was that everything was ok, God had provided for each of these living things, the green covered mountains had enough life and care to support every living thing in the area. Jesus said look at the birds and the plants, see how they don’t worry about their food, what makes you think you are less important than they are. We don’t ever have to worry about anything because He is our God and we are his people and He loves us.
The rest of the day was filled with planning sessions and talks about the kids we will be working with, their back rounds, how we need to push them to try new things and expect things out of them because no one ever has before, we were told that culturally nothing is ever expected from the kids. IE they don’t have responsibilities or jobs, and it is not a big deal for them to say they will do something and then not follow through with it because that is just what is normal here. It’s a very simple life here in Copan, most the jobs are feeding the desires of tourist, so sitting in the front of a hotel or in the market to sell stuff, working in the coffee fields to harvest the beans. Everything is slow paced and there is never a rush, they can spend months just to finish one section of road. I saw guys in the river today digging up sand by hand and sifting out the rocks to make cement.
Most of the things we are doing are very new to the culture here, tomorrow night we are having a sleep over with the youth (older kids who are working for us) Sleep overs are un heard of here, kids don’t stay at their friends house over night, so the idea of spending the night at the office was so weird to the kids and their parents, it was not looked down on, just a very strong curiosity as to why! Why would you do that? One of the parents was expressing how it will be so weird for their family not to have their daughter in the house, at the age of 13-16 this is their FIRST time to sleep anywhere other then their own house.
For lunch today we all met up at San Rafael’s for coffee and sandwiches, I really like this place though I should start exploring other places to eat around the city and not stick to one place, I am sure I can find a much larger variety of food and coffee drinks if I explore, but it’s nice to have a spot that everyone likes. The rest of the night is spent in the house resting. We are all feeling dreadfully tired from the long days in the heat. I have still not seen any thing that resembles air conditioner, the milk comes in little bags and they don’t even refrigerate that or the eggs. It’s a very very different culture and I am loving every moment of it!!!
God reassured me that He is in control of everything, I saw lots of life happening on this river, this tree was dropping it’s fruits to the ground like bombs while butterflies were dancing around, ants carrying leaves that were 20 times their size relentlessly up dirt hills without giving up, Many birds and horses cows and the local Honduran people. But the common theme was that everything was ok, God had provided for each of these living things, the green covered mountains had enough life and care to support every living thing in the area. Jesus said look at the birds and the plants, see how they don’t worry about their food, what makes you think you are less important than they are. We don’t ever have to worry about anything because He is our God and we are his people and He loves us.
The rest of the day was filled with planning sessions and talks about the kids we will be working with, their back rounds, how we need to push them to try new things and expect things out of them because no one ever has before, we were told that culturally nothing is ever expected from the kids. IE they don’t have responsibilities or jobs, and it is not a big deal for them to say they will do something and then not follow through with it because that is just what is normal here. It’s a very simple life here in Copan, most the jobs are feeding the desires of tourist, so sitting in the front of a hotel or in the market to sell stuff, working in the coffee fields to harvest the beans. Everything is slow paced and there is never a rush, they can spend months just to finish one section of road. I saw guys in the river today digging up sand by hand and sifting out the rocks to make cement.
Most of the things we are doing are very new to the culture here, tomorrow night we are having a sleep over with the youth (older kids who are working for us) Sleep overs are un heard of here, kids don’t stay at their friends house over night, so the idea of spending the night at the office was so weird to the kids and their parents, it was not looked down on, just a very strong curiosity as to why! Why would you do that? One of the parents was expressing how it will be so weird for their family not to have their daughter in the house, at the age of 13-16 this is their FIRST time to sleep anywhere other then their own house.
For lunch today we all met up at San Rafael’s for coffee and sandwiches, I really like this place though I should start exploring other places to eat around the city and not stick to one place, I am sure I can find a much larger variety of food and coffee drinks if I explore, but it’s nice to have a spot that everyone likes. The rest of the night is spent in the house resting. We are all feeling dreadfully tired from the long days in the heat. I have still not seen any thing that resembles air conditioner, the milk comes in little bags and they don’t even refrigerate that or the eggs. It’s a very very different culture and I am loving every moment of it!!!
june 29th
June 29, 2010 today was a stressful day, full of sitting and talking and prepping for camp.
This morning we did a worship session with Rachel Nelson; it’s interesting how God works because the common theme naturally this week has been What is Worship. It has come up in three different sessions without anyone knowing it had been discussed earlier and each conversation about it has been completely different.
Camp planning was next on our list for the morning; we sat around and brainstormed ideas for the first week. I forgot how much energy it could take to brainstorm so many ideas, we have a huge paper with stuff written all over it! So many games and ideas I think we are going to have a very packed summer and I am excited. I can’t wait to tell you all about the things we are doing with the kids!! And I am so excited to meet them all and learn their different stories and back rounds.
Lunch was next in the day, we hiked back up to the house for an hour, ate some lunch and read for a while, do note that our house is a 15 min walk from the office and there is this death hill on the way back up so it’s no easy task to just wander back to the house, we need to start packing our lunches.
After lunch we had an hour conversation about “sharing the gospel” “missionary” and “what is the gospel” it was very interesting to hear each person’s different ideas on what it means to share the gospel or how God uses each of us to share the gospel. I recommend having this conversation in your small groups, just make 3 boxes and start filling them in with what you think they each mean or how they relate to your life and how you feel God wants you to live with each one.
After this amazing conversation we ran down to San Rafael coffee and got some amazing oreo coffee things. I think I am addicted to them, the coffee here is so much stronger then the coffee in the States, I really can’t with words help you to understand the amazing ness of the coffee here. Back home I always have to add sugar and milk to my coffee, but here in Copan that would absolutely ruin it, so I just drink it black.
More planning after the coffee, but I had to bail early because Tuesday is my day to cook dinner for the house with Kristin our house director. We made some bean burrito things that were awesome!
Community night is also on Tuesday nights, so after dinner we played this game where each person has to write down three interesting things about themselves no one else would know in the house. Three people are called upon by Kristin to sit on the couch and she reads one of them. One of the people on the couch is the owner of this story but all three try and convince the rest of the group that it is their story, then the rest of the group votes on who they think the story belongs to, it was a great exercise and I learned a lot about my room mates ☺
After all this Emma and I decided to go for a run, (which she does daily in the mornings) so we ran for about 25 mins around the city of death hills. The first speed bump outside our house emma decided it would be a great idea to not notice the bump, fall and slide about four feet on her knees in front of everyone watching. But she was a champ and got right up and kept on running, her knees are pretty banged up now but she won’t let you know it hurts ☺
It is now 12 at night and we are at the office using the Internet about to go back to the house!!! So good night I hope you enjoyed the randomness of this update.
This morning we did a worship session with Rachel Nelson; it’s interesting how God works because the common theme naturally this week has been What is Worship. It has come up in three different sessions without anyone knowing it had been discussed earlier and each conversation about it has been completely different.
Camp planning was next on our list for the morning; we sat around and brainstormed ideas for the first week. I forgot how much energy it could take to brainstorm so many ideas, we have a huge paper with stuff written all over it! So many games and ideas I think we are going to have a very packed summer and I am excited. I can’t wait to tell you all about the things we are doing with the kids!! And I am so excited to meet them all and learn their different stories and back rounds.
Lunch was next in the day, we hiked back up to the house for an hour, ate some lunch and read for a while, do note that our house is a 15 min walk from the office and there is this death hill on the way back up so it’s no easy task to just wander back to the house, we need to start packing our lunches.
After lunch we had an hour conversation about “sharing the gospel” “missionary” and “what is the gospel” it was very interesting to hear each person’s different ideas on what it means to share the gospel or how God uses each of us to share the gospel. I recommend having this conversation in your small groups, just make 3 boxes and start filling them in with what you think they each mean or how they relate to your life and how you feel God wants you to live with each one.
After this amazing conversation we ran down to San Rafael coffee and got some amazing oreo coffee things. I think I am addicted to them, the coffee here is so much stronger then the coffee in the States, I really can’t with words help you to understand the amazing ness of the coffee here. Back home I always have to add sugar and milk to my coffee, but here in Copan that would absolutely ruin it, so I just drink it black.
More planning after the coffee, but I had to bail early because Tuesday is my day to cook dinner for the house with Kristin our house director. We made some bean burrito things that were awesome!
Community night is also on Tuesday nights, so after dinner we played this game where each person has to write down three interesting things about themselves no one else would know in the house. Three people are called upon by Kristin to sit on the couch and she reads one of them. One of the people on the couch is the owner of this story but all three try and convince the rest of the group that it is their story, then the rest of the group votes on who they think the story belongs to, it was a great exercise and I learned a lot about my room mates ☺
After all this Emma and I decided to go for a run, (which she does daily in the mornings) so we ran for about 25 mins around the city of death hills. The first speed bump outside our house emma decided it would be a great idea to not notice the bump, fall and slide about four feet on her knees in front of everyone watching. But she was a champ and got right up and kept on running, her knees are pretty banged up now but she won’t let you know it hurts ☺
It is now 12 at night and we are at the office using the Internet about to go back to the house!!! So good night I hope you enjoyed the randomness of this update.
june 28th
Monday the 28th. Today we began prep for camp and also got to see the campsite. Camp is going to be held at a bilingual school in the city, It is about a 30 min walk uphill from my house, the views on the walk are quite amazing! There is a huge river that we walk along and eventually cross over. Today there were kids playing in the river and it looked like a lot of fun, one of the girls came shooting out from under the bridge in the strong current. And another girl was sliding down some rocks on a 3 liter cola bottle.
The campsite is really nice; we have lots of space, a soccer field and basketball court, lots of classrooms and a cafeteria. All the buildings are made out of cinderblock and have big pitched roofs on them, with huge open screen window’s on two sides you can get all the breeze the mountains give you.
Honduras is so amazing; it is very tropical I feel like I am in a movie every day I walk out of our apartment. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude for being allowed this experience. God is way to good for me and I think I am in way over my head following Him. The things God must have planned for my life . . . I can’t even begin to imagine nor do I really want to, I did not expect to be in Central America 2 years ago, learning Spanish by being in a Spanish speaking culture. I honestly thought I was going to end up homeless or work some boring job I don’t really want so I could buy a bunch of stuff I really don’t need. I am content with what I have and still feel like I have to much. I understand how the apostles could own nothing, and feel like they have everything! I may not have any money or a job that pays, a house or fancy car, but the whole world is mine for the taking and God has blessed me with the ability to know how to love people, which gives me access to all the recourses of the world.
Tonight we did a worship service with just the house, it was really enjoyable and I have not had an experience like it in quite some time. We started the event off with some singing, we have a songbook and just picked out a few songs we knew and then got into a discussion about what worship means to us and how we as individuals worship God. It is always so interesting to hear other people’s experiences with Christ.
Amner and Obed have been going non-stop at me with the Spanish lessons and mockery. Apparently I am fun to teach Spanish to because my accent and miss use of words, But Obed reassured me that I am learning quickly and doing quite well. I love our group and really wish everyone could share this experience with me and I hope these letters are giving some idea of what it is like.
Mangos, Mangos, Mangos everywhere, they grow on the trees and fall at you! And they are the best Mangos I have ever eaten in my life! They are way better then any Mango I have ever had in the States. I must mention again the amazing ness of the local grown coffee, it is very delicious, and I will be bringing some back.
My legs are hurting from all the walking and the heat makes me tired and sleep on tile floors but I am loving every moment of it and I can not believe it has only been 5 days!!! I feel like I have been here so long already and it frightens me to think of all that God has to teach me in my time here.
The campsite is really nice; we have lots of space, a soccer field and basketball court, lots of classrooms and a cafeteria. All the buildings are made out of cinderblock and have big pitched roofs on them, with huge open screen window’s on two sides you can get all the breeze the mountains give you.
Honduras is so amazing; it is very tropical I feel like I am in a movie every day I walk out of our apartment. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude for being allowed this experience. God is way to good for me and I think I am in way over my head following Him. The things God must have planned for my life . . . I can’t even begin to imagine nor do I really want to, I did not expect to be in Central America 2 years ago, learning Spanish by being in a Spanish speaking culture. I honestly thought I was going to end up homeless or work some boring job I don’t really want so I could buy a bunch of stuff I really don’t need. I am content with what I have and still feel like I have to much. I understand how the apostles could own nothing, and feel like they have everything! I may not have any money or a job that pays, a house or fancy car, but the whole world is mine for the taking and God has blessed me with the ability to know how to love people, which gives me access to all the recourses of the world.
Tonight we did a worship service with just the house, it was really enjoyable and I have not had an experience like it in quite some time. We started the event off with some singing, we have a songbook and just picked out a few songs we knew and then got into a discussion about what worship means to us and how we as individuals worship God. It is always so interesting to hear other people’s experiences with Christ.
Amner and Obed have been going non-stop at me with the Spanish lessons and mockery. Apparently I am fun to teach Spanish to because my accent and miss use of words, But Obed reassured me that I am learning quickly and doing quite well. I love our group and really wish everyone could share this experience with me and I hope these letters are giving some idea of what it is like.
Mangos, Mangos, Mangos everywhere, they grow on the trees and fall at you! And they are the best Mangos I have ever eaten in my life! They are way better then any Mango I have ever had in the States. I must mention again the amazing ness of the local grown coffee, it is very delicious, and I will be bringing some back.
My legs are hurting from all the walking and the heat makes me tired and sleep on tile floors but I am loving every moment of it and I can not believe it has only been 5 days!!! I feel like I have been here so long already and it frightens me to think of all that God has to teach me in my time here.
Monday the 28th. Today we began prep for camp and also got to see the campsite. Camp is going to be held at a bilingual school in the city, It is about a 30 min walk uphill from my house, the views on the walk are quite amazing! There is a huge river that we walk along and eventually cross over. Today there were kids playing in the river and it looked like a lot of fun, one of the girls came shooting out from under the bridge in the strong current. And another girl was sliding down some rocks on a 3 liter cola bottle.
The campsite is really nice; we have lots of space, a soccer field and basketball court, lots of classrooms and a cafeteria. All the buildings are made out of cinderblock and have big pitched roofs on them, with huge open screen window’s on two sides you can get all the breeze the mountains give you.
Honduras is so amazing; it is very tropical I feel like I am in a movie every day I walk out of our apartment. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude for being allowed this experience. God is way to good for me and I think I am in way over my head following Him. The things God must have planned for my life . . . I can’t even begin to imagine nor do I really want to, I did not expect to be in Central America 2 years ago, learning Spanish by being in a Spanish speaking culture. I honestly thought I was going to end up homeless or work some boring job I don’t really want so I could buy a bunch of stuff I really don’t need. I am content with what I have and still feel like I have to much. I understand how the apostles could own nothing, and feel like they have everything! I may not have any money or a job that pays, a house or fancy car, but the whole world is mine for the taking and God has blessed me with the ability to know how to love people, which gives me access to all the recourses of the world.
Tonight we did a worship service with just the house, it was really enjoyable and I have not had an experience like it in quite some time. We started the event off with some singing, we have a songbook and just picked out a few songs we knew and then got into a discussion about what worship means to us and how we as individuals worship God. It is always so interesting to hear other people’s experiences with Christ.
Amner and Obed have been going non-stop at me with the Spanish lessons and mockery. Apparently I am fun to teach Spanish to because my accent and miss use of words, But Obed reassured me that I am learning quickly and doing quite well. I love our group and really wish everyone could share this experience with me and I hope these letters are giving some idea of what it is like.
Mangos, Mangos, Mangos everywhere, they grow on the trees and fall at you! And they are the best Mangos I have ever eaten in my life! They are way better then any Mango I have ever had in the States. I must mention again the amazing ness of the local grown coffee, it is very delicious, and I will be bringing some back.
My legs are hurting from all the walking and the heat makes me tired and sleep on tile floors but I am loving every moment of it and I can not believe it has only been 5 days!!! I feel like I have been here so long already and it frightens me to think of all that God has to teach me in my time here.
The campsite is really nice; we have lots of space, a soccer field and basketball court, lots of classrooms and a cafeteria. All the buildings are made out of cinderblock and have big pitched roofs on them, with huge open screen window’s on two sides you can get all the breeze the mountains give you.
Honduras is so amazing; it is very tropical I feel like I am in a movie every day I walk out of our apartment. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude for being allowed this experience. God is way to good for me and I think I am in way over my head following Him. The things God must have planned for my life . . . I can’t even begin to imagine nor do I really want to, I did not expect to be in Central America 2 years ago, learning Spanish by being in a Spanish speaking culture. I honestly thought I was going to end up homeless or work some boring job I don’t really want so I could buy a bunch of stuff I really don’t need. I am content with what I have and still feel like I have to much. I understand how the apostles could own nothing, and feel like they have everything! I may not have any money or a job that pays, a house or fancy car, but the whole world is mine for the taking and God has blessed me with the ability to know how to love people, which gives me access to all the recourses of the world.
Tonight we did a worship service with just the house, it was really enjoyable and I have not had an experience like it in quite some time. We started the event off with some singing, we have a songbook and just picked out a few songs we knew and then got into a discussion about what worship means to us and how we as individuals worship God. It is always so interesting to hear other people’s experiences with Christ.
Amner and Obed have been going non-stop at me with the Spanish lessons and mockery. Apparently I am fun to teach Spanish to because my accent and miss use of words, But Obed reassured me that I am learning quickly and doing quite well. I love our group and really wish everyone could share this experience with me and I hope these letters are giving some idea of what it is like.
Mangos, Mangos, Mangos everywhere, they grow on the trees and fall at you! And they are the best Mangos I have ever eaten in my life! They are way better then any Mango I have ever had in the States. I must mention again the amazing ness of the local grown coffee, it is very delicious, and I will be bringing some back.
My legs are hurting from all the walking and the heat makes me tired and sleep on tile floors but I am loving every moment of it and I can not believe it has only been 5 days!!! I feel like I have been here so long already and it frightens me to think of all that God has to teach me in my time here.
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