Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Bienvenidos a Cofradia!

I made it to Honduras!

After an uneventful 3.5 hour flight (next to a friendly man who spoke no English, but who made no effort to enunciate or slow down his Spanish), I made it to Honduras! Customs was rather unorganized, but I survived.  Laurence (BECA's director) picked up me, Sarah Hamilton (my Honduran roommate and incoming freshman at Davidson), and Robel (our lone male volunteer) and we drove about 40 min to Cofradia.

Cofradia is so colorful! Everything is painted some beautiful color, including the house that I'm staying in.  Shout out to Julia Richardson for the watch she gave me for my birthday that is coming in handy already. Very few clocks around.  It's hot as hell. Actually, not that much hotter than Covington, but no air conditioning, so you sweat all day long. On my first day, the power and water went out for a bit (gotta dive right into the fun!).  No worries, though. Also all showers are cold...which is rather refreshing.  We have fans all over the house, so I managed to sleep through the night and feel clean after my shower until this morning!

Sorry for the spazztic blog posts! They're probably going to be like that, because I'm trying not to hoard Michelle's computer for too long.  But when we start camp on Monday, I can calm down and use the computers at school!

Oh, also, milk is in a bag here. I've had boxed milk in Spain....but didn't know about bagged milk....still tastes good though!

Today, we're hanging out and shopping for groceries, getting to know each other, etc. We're also going to check out the school. We'll start planning camp themes tomorrow!

Love you all!