Today was
Saturday...walked around a lot. Like 30 minutes to an investigator's house.
But it's all good, I think our area's pretty big. Still recovering a little bit
from the stomach bug, but today I felt much better, by tomorrow I should be
perfect...the only problem is that I can't stomach la comida catracha right now, as it's mostly fried and full of rice and beans and
cheese and Coke for beverage, so much to everyone's surprise and not
understanding, I'm eating oatmeal and vegetables and drinking water. I'm gonna
have a hard time convincing everyone to not give me huge amounts of food for
dinner as well, as we are given both lunch and dinner in this area. But I
seriously don't have that much hunger at night and I sleep better if I'm not
jam-packed with copious amounts of the aforementioned foods. So we'll see how
that plays out...stubborn Hna Mower and "delicate" gringo stomach
vs. hardcore traditional ward members...let the games begin!
In other
news, we visited this one family, and they were complementing my eyes, and I
thought they said they looked like apio, which is celery, instead of Barbie,
the doll...whoops. It's cause the fan
was blowing and it's always a lot harder to understand when there's sounds and
music playing and motos (motorcycles) passing and kids crying and dogs barking
and running around...you get the picture. Anyways, we all laughed about that.
I was confused because my eyes are blue, not green, so I thought it was because
they're a clearer color? But Barbie makes more sense, as she has blue eyes as
well. It still throws me off to look in the mirror or pictures and see that I'm
quite white and blue-eyed, all I see around me are Spanish-speaking, darker-skinned,
brown-eyed people, and since I speak Spanish and don't see myself that often
during the day, I guess I think I fit right in sometimes...weird how that
happens in your brain. I guess I understand how those funny animal pairs you
hear about exist...a goat grows up with a litter of dogs and think it belongs
with all of them. Weird.
We also
washed laundry in the biggest pila I have ever seen in my time here in Honduras, it
was about 5 x 8 x 4 ft, and all cement. They take water storage very seriously
here, as it seems like it goes out more often than in SPS, the electricity also
goes out almost daily as well. Welcome to Honduras, take 2 *clapper board*.
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| Outside of our house |
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| Our concrete pila and wash board |
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| Laundry day! |
We ran by the market to buy some fruits and veggies and I
bought a papaya (good for cleaning up your tummy) as big as a rugby ball, 2 fat
juicy limes about 4 inches long, 3 cucumbers of goodly size, and an avocado the
size of a Honduran mango (aka, big)...all for 50 lemps, or a little less than
$2.50. Sweet deal, right? I love Honduran produce prices.
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