La Alemada

Today was our first Wednesday classes. It was a very long day. I started at 8:00 and was not done until 4:00. During our lunch break we met our conversation partners. These are people who are at about the same level of English that we are in Spanish. My girls name is Marilyn. She is 19 and wants to be an English teacher. She commutes on the bus an hour every day. Today we had our first Poverty and Faith class. It was very interesting. We started out with looking at statistics about the poverty of the world. The statement my teacher made was that it is amazing how much poverty there is among so much wealth in our world. Wednesday night was another Honduras soccer game against Jamaica. I watched it at home. Whenever they scored I could hear people yelling 20 houses away. There would be fireworks set off somewhere in the city. The game was not even in our city, and our city was going crazy. They are very passionate about their soccer.

Thursday I met with my conversation partner for the same time. She introduced me to all our friends at the university. I talked mostly in English because they like to practice with a native, which for them is very rare. I do not mind because I speak Spanish the rest of the day with other people. Because we have no classes on Friday, Thursday was like our Friday night. I had two girls, Katie and Hope, come over to my house to watch a movie. I was still able to get to bed to catch up on my sleep.

Friday at noon, Katie and I took a taxi to the hotel that we were staying at for the weekend. It was very nice. We went out to McDonalds for lunch, which was delicious. We spent the afternoon at the pool. For dinner we went to a Chinese restaurant that was close to the hotel. It was kind of weird because we were the only people there. The food was good, but it was an interesting experience. I guess Chinese food is not popular in Honduras. We spent the rest of the night in our hotel room playing cards and talking. We stayed up till midnight, which for all of us, is now very nice. Sadly, one of the girls in our group, Sara, became sick in the middle of the night. She ended up sleeping by the bathroom door she was throwing up so much. We are all hoping no one else gets it. We had breakfast at the hotel on the patio by the pool. We only had two free breakfasts from the hotel, so we just ordered more food, and split the cost. It ended up only being two dollars apiece. I had French toast, fruit, toast, and orange juice. It was delicious. We spent the rest of the morning by the pool. The sun was so strong that we had to keep going in the water to cool down. We checked out at one and took taxis home. I was so tried that I took a nap.