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| Good Morning! |
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| Most people here don't know how to braid... let alone do a double french on one's self! |
Just had lunch, Hna Robles made Spanish tortillas, and they were delicious. We have a tiny little 2 burner electrical stove that we have sitting on the ground, so I felt like I was camping as we were preparing lunch, it was pretty fun.
I had a somewhat of a rough time with Spanish this morning,
it's always a little tricky to get my brain back into language mode that early,
so we took a break and sorted that out, and I'm fine now. Getting
better and better each day, still tricky to get through the Honduran way of
dropping half of the words, but I'm understanding some more, and that's at
least some progress, in my book. Hna Robles is learning some English for the
test when she gets back home (on the 26th of April, I believe she will have been
in the field for 11 months!) and we learned "coconut" and "The man is angry," quite useful phrases.
We also went over food names as we were cooking lunch. I'm also learning a lot of medical terms in Spanish, and taking anatomy has really helped as they are more closely related than the English words for things are (case in point: "renal" is "kidney" in both cases, as well as "cerebrum" and "cerebro" compared to "brain"). But it's fun to translate everyone's health issues from Hna Robles and relay them to Hna Dester every other day or so, and then relay back to Hna Robles what she said concerning them.
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| Part of my desk and my WELCOME note from Hna Robles |
We also went over food names as we were cooking lunch. I'm also learning a lot of medical terms in Spanish, and taking anatomy has really helped as they are more closely related than the English words for things are (case in point: "renal" is "kidney" in both cases, as well as "cerebrum" and "cerebro" compared to "brain"). But it's fun to translate everyone's health issues from Hna Robles and relay them to Hna Dester every other day or so, and then relay back to Hna Robles what she said concerning them.
Also, there were some clouds this morning, so that was really
nice to have slightly cooler weather, now it's pretty
hot again. Our poor little house is quite warm, as always, as most of the
dwellings here are also quite warm... actually any structure is hot. Also
outside is hot. But I guess it's a blessing to have the sun and roads and
houses and running water, although we can't drink it, but somehow it's alright
to wash our dishes and fruit and things in it, and then use them?
E Wing said that this is the hottest time during the year, so it can only get better from here. I don't know how much better, but it will be better. And I really do like it here, this is one of the nicest areas of the mission to work in, E Wing was telling me about some others he's worked in, the people there have a little hut with a mud floor in the middle of nowhere that's about 20 sq feet and 8 people live there...crazy.
E Wing said that this is the hottest time during the year, so it can only get better from here. I don't know how much better, but it will be better. And I really do like it here, this is one of the nicest areas of the mission to work in, E Wing was telling me about some others he's worked in, the people there have a little hut with a mud floor in the middle of nowhere that's about 20 sq feet and 8 people live there...crazy.
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| Looking to the window from my desk |
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| Our little half-broom It makes a valiant effort to help me clean! |
10:02 pm
Tengo bastante sueno! Estoy bien cansada... basically, I'm
very tired. I've learned in my 4 days here that you use "bastante" to indicate a
great amount of something, and can use "bien" as a way to express "muy," por
ejemplo: "Ella habla bastante!" "She talks a lot," "El fue bien enojado" "He was
very upset," "que bien chistoso" "that's very funny - that's hilarious," also "bien tarde" for "very late"... interesting stuff, it's fun to pick up on new
words and how to use them. People are always amazed at how well I know Spanish,
I still struggle with some of the speakers here, but Hna Robles is an angel and
is helping me out a lot. Most of the time I just need her to repeat
what the person said, since I understand her perfectly, but even she doesn't
understand what these people are saying sometimes. She's from Peru , and I understand her almost perfectly, so that's really good. So now I've got Mexican, Guatemalan, and Peruvian dialects down, I'll need to work on my Honduran Spanish next!
I also received 4 mosquito bites last
night, so I'm making sure I bug-proof myself tonight, not really a fan of
getting sick from a stupid virus right now.
10:25 pm
There's some interesting things down here, people included,
so everyday is pretty different, granted I've only had 3 days in Honduras ,
but it is quite different from the States and also the CCM. But, it's good, the
eternal Girl's Camp experience continues!
We had Marisol come teach with us today, she's a convert of
4 years, and she's amazing, can barely understand a word she says, but she's
awesome, I like her a lot.
Just wanted to show off my lovely shoe tan line on my feet....my arms and face are still pretty white, we'll see if they end up tanning at all.
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