The First Couple Days

            My first few days in Honduras have been pretty great!  We got to El Sembrador (the school I am working at) yesterday in time for a delicious Honduran dinner of rice and beans, sausage, and goat cheese.  I spent the rest of the evening getting settled in at the Harmless house.  It’s a really nice place!  There is wi-fi, drinkable tap water, and hot showers.  I feel like I’m on vacation, but I’m certainly not complaining! 

            There are two mission teams here this week, and since Leslie, my supervisor, is in charge of organizing and scheduling the mission groups, my first week here will pretty much be assisting her however she needs.  Today we went to the market with the women of one group because there wasn’t enough work for everyone, but that didn’t get us out of doing hard labor!  Once we got into town our van broke down, and we spent a good amount of the morning pushing the van down the street while Leslie tried to turn it on.  I’m pretty sure we gave everyone in town their entertainment for the week.  If they weren’t laughing at us they were shaking their heads at how ridiculous this group of women looked chasing a white van down the street.  Some men had pity on us and helped us push, and eventually we got it running enough to get back to the school.

            In the afternoon I worked mostly in the office getting ready for a Bible School they are putting on tomorrow.  I mentioned that I had just got finished putting a Bible School on in the DR, and I was “put in charge” of organizing everything, which was pretty easy, since I just used the same plan I used last week.  The kids seemed to enjoy it last week-I hope they will tomorrow!

            Also, I saw a few monkeys tied in a yard with ropes.  And a parrot-like bird that had a cone around its neck because it was plucking its own feathers out. An interesting end to an interesting day.