Saturday, October 17, 2015 -- Month #7 - Week #35 - Day #243 - Santa Cruz de Yojoa

It's fun because I'm learning a whole bunch of words that are Honduran, just like the other latinos that come here for the mission, so that's a fun little factoid. Everyone's learning here. 

Some words so far are:

- chinear (carry-give a lift-hold on lap)

- macizo (cool-neat)

- pichingo (cartoon)

- va'pue' (go on then, alright)

- pollo chuco ("dirty chicken", fried chicken with tajadas)

- macanudo (cool-crazy-fun)

- que pasada (what craziness: like when responding to someone telling a story, as a side comment)

- chiki (referring to persons, people calling from rapiditos if they want a ride: "Maeco, chiki, maeco van")

- cheque leque (okey-dokey)

- chancho (pig-animal)

- dentren (come in, really isn't a word, should be without the d at the beginning)

- piscina (pool, but they say "peekseena" which is incorrect pronounciation)

- costurar (sew: normally it's "coser")

- la calor and el tele which is using the incorrect gender of words

- revuelto (all mixed up, a mess)

- churros (chips)

- pulperia (those little house stores that sell churros and soda)

- guirro/guirra (boy/girl)

- Ejene (the way they say "ensene")

- compa (man/buddy)

- chasta (bad/that sucks)

- chuna (barefoot)

And other assorted words. I love Honduran Spanish.

And everyone's convinced that I'm a ballerina, so that's fun as well. It is true that I know the basic ballet forms, but everyone says it's because I sit up straight. No one sits up straight here.

And cows literally cross the roads all the time. More when you're going up to el Zapote, but there's always a whole ton of chickens and dogs and everything all over the place. I love animals!

And we made a fun little FHE teaching tool: La Lechuga Preguntona! You write little questions or things to get to know people on pieces of paper shaped like leaves, and tape them to a ball, and then you pass the Lettuce around like hot potato and then you have to answer the question when it lands on you. We're gonna use it in a FHE we have planned for Monday.

La Lechuga Preguntona! :P