our first sunday...

i have to admit, i've never blogged before so this is a first. y como se dice "blog" en espanol? el blogo? probably. this week has been pretty interesting. it was nothing too new for me, arriving into the san pedro sula airport and immediately feeling like i wish i were jumping into a pool. good ole central america, you put florida to shame in mugginess. i snuck up on cosmo, jack, laurie, olivia and adele who were waiting patiently for me on the floor of the airport. we swiftly forced jack to carry all of our 400-lb bags to the truck and were whisked away to el progreso (that means progress for all of you who don't speak the spanish).

first day, hmmm, i don't quite remember what we did. it was kinda blurry. i hadn't slept for a few days up until my flight here so i was kind of in a haze already. that crazy weekend fredericksburg night life will get you, i tell you. okay, okay back to honduras. this week actually flew by, meetings every day discussing business from house rules to the education center of copprome to villa soleada/ siete de abril and their community to our own personal research. none of us i believe have actually decided for certain what our long term plan is going to be, but we're all definitely starting to create our own image of what we'd like to see ourselves doing and goals for our time here.

i have to say, the people i live with are WEIRD. super weird. i'm pretty certain i will be holing up in my room as much as possible. laurie? the philipina? oh man, that chick is crazy. always running around the house naked, singing metallica at the top of her lungs. at crazy hours of the morning, too. i mean, maybe that would be acceptable in the afternoon to mid-evening on the weekends, but tuesday night at 3 am? come on.

and adele? don't even get me started. she claims she's fresh out of high school but she has an accomplished chicken fighting ring going on out of our downstairs kitchen. she thinks we don't know, but it's obvious- there are no doors to the kitchen. and the thing is, she runs it like a pro. she's down there making bank, bringing in some of the best trained chickens in the area and they started calling her the godmother after 3 days here. i'm very cautious of that one. "adele," haha yeah sure. a likely story. i'm onto you, hunny.

and olivia. that one, she's sneaky. i'm fairly certain that she is sprinkling some kind of illegal add-in to the coffee to make it so delicious and addicting that i can't go a day without it. how dare she. i'm on to her, too.

so, all in all it's awesome here in the house. i'm anxious to see where this week takes us, i am going to be working with alejandro- who is visiting copprome for these next couple weeks and helping out- and also laurie on a week-long computer certification course for the elementary kids. we are going to plan out the details today and then kind of finalize it all tomorrow at copprome. we'll have a little certification/graduation ceremony on friday, which should be crazy fun. i remember my own computer certification/ graduation ceremony back in elementary school. whoa! it was, i mean wow, good times. some of my best and craziest memories. one kid ended up with a tattoo, another kid actually wound up in southwest mexico married to a woman named angela... it was quite the party. we'll see how this friday goes, i will keep you all posted. all of you reading this blog, the number of which is difficult to measure at this early a stage, but let's say around ten or eleven thousand readers. give or take a few.

okay, i should start working. there is much to be done here and i have until december to get a lot of it done. i'll go home for a month then be back with full force to do more here in el progreso, honduras. the love capital of the western hemisphere as was pointed out to me last night by kate kilduff--- whom i totally adore, btdub.

over and out. paz afuera.