The guy beside me is Victor, whose church we went to on Sunday. He is really funny. He likes to do fist bumps, but he liked to mess with the guys and switch his fist to a palm or scissors or other forms to throw them off as they were doing the fist bumps. He worked/oversaw our work at the school.
These were the Essex guys that I was working with. On the left is Nic, who has become one of my really good friends, and on the right are Jeff and Pastor Brent. Pastor Brent used to work at Elim in Sault Ste. Marie and he likes to make lots of Sault comments at me. He even calls me Sault! He's really funny and likes to tease. I'm learning to make witty remarks back at him (isn't that such a nice pose he's doing? ;P ).
The rest of the team joined us a bit earlier today as the classes were ended early again in the morning. So we all sat inside the kindergarden school and started playing the "I'm going to a party and I'm bringing _____" game, where there are rules on what you're able to bring. So if the rule is you can only bring things that start with the same letter as your name, then I could bring chips, cookies, and candy, but I couldn't bring pop, balloons, or jellybeans. The point of the game though is to try to figure out what the rule is. Another rule you could go by is that you can only bring things with double letters in its name (aka cookies, balloons, apples, spoons, etc). It was a lot of fun and we played that until lunch.
After lunch, Nic and I took a walk to a pouporia the next street over and got bottles of ice tea, which only cost 20 lempiras for two (that's equal to about .50 each!), which I paid for (you're welcome, Nic!). They were really cool though because they were glass bottles!
I didn't realize until later that I had taken a picture of the english side of the bottle. On the other side, it says "Té Frío", which is a name I've had to learn so that I know how to order ice tea when we go places. It's kinda been my go-to drink here, but I have been trying other drinks too! Like the banana pop, and on our way home today we stopped at a grocery store and since I only have 13 lempiras on me, I decided to try another new pop, which was a coconut pop. I know that my mom wouldn't like it but it wasn't that bad. It had an interesting taste. It almost reminded me of a white cream soda, but with a slightly different taste to it. Carolyn says it reminds her of the white freezies.
In the afternoon, I did some more cement mixing and I did some sweeping inside of the classrooms as some of the cement bits had gotten in through the window, so I thought I'd help clean the place up a bit. I also cleaned around the tables where we had been eating. I was just about finished when the rest of the team returned, so I quickly finished up so that we could go.
On our way home, Honduras got what it'd been missing since November: rain! We could hear it coming before it started, as it was thundering and lightning for a bit before the rain hit. The sky got so dark that it felt like it was heading to 6pm (which is when it gets dark here), though it was only 2pm. The rain came down heavy and hard. It was so crazy seeing how quickly water filled the roads as we were driving. I tried to get a picture of the water levels on the street, but this was the best I could get.
At one point, it even started hailing! It was coming down so hard that it sounded like rocks hitting the van! It was still raining by the time we got back to the team house, which was fine because Tegucigalpa really needed it. Apparently it's supposed to rain until next week, but it's not a constant rain. Dale said that it'll usually rain for like an hour in the morning and then an hour in the afternoon during rainy season, which is what we're getting into now.
Once we arrived back at the team house, we discovered that the power was out! So we all just sat inside the house and played a game where we tossed a ball with questions on it around and wherever your right thumb landed, you had to answer that question. So we did that for a bit and then we had our debrief for the day and schedule for tomorrow, though they wouldn't tell us what we're doing in the afternoon. I think I may know what we're doing though because I think Dale had mentioned about us going up to the Jesus statue. I'm not sure, but I think that's a definite possibility.
Unfortunately, because of the power outage, dinner was not able to be cooked so instead, we had a makeshift supper of cold cuts, veggies, and salad. And more pineapple! I'm finding I'm really liking pineapple! We hung out for a little while after supper, but not for too long as we needed to get heading home. Traffic was crazy busy. As I mentioned earlier, we stopped at a grocery store and I got the coconut pop. When we finally got home, we had hot dogs that had cheese in them. They were really good. Elisa and I played a couple rounds of Spot It before she went to bed and now here we are! That was pretty much my day in a nutshell! Tomorrow we're doing a fun day at the school, which involves all the kids from the morning and afternoon classes. We're doing a story, a testimony, an object lesson, and we're going to have a whole bunch of stations that the kids get to rotate through, so that'll be fun. I'm looking forward to doing that. And then we have the unknown afternoon plans. It sounds like it's going to be a good day :) I'll fill you in on the details tomorrow night. Until then, buenas noches!
~ Cass Haines ~
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