Nueva Suyapa

This weekend was very interesting. The whole group went to visit Nueva Suyapa, which is a town about 25 minutes from the university. This town is much poor than where I live now, yet is the norm for the majority of Honduras. We arrived in Nueva Suyapa around 4:00. This town is where two of our professors live with their family. We went first to the church of our professors, where the families met us. There were two students with every family. I was with Amanda. The papá brought us back to his house, which was not too far from the church. We met his two sons, who were 8 and 3 years old. We had dinner; rice, refried beans, cheese, and tortillas, which is about as Honduran as you can get. We passed the evening playing with the children. The cousins lived next door. The children asked a lot of questions, like how old are you, where do you live, what is your favorite color… One of the little boys sat down very seriously and asked us “what are the customs of the US?” We asked him, “customs for what exactly?” He just wanted to know in general our customs; a broad-hard question to answer. The kids had a book of English vocabulary. They all know a little English from school. They would say, “The sky is blue,” and we would tell them the sentence back in Spanish. We did this a lot. Amanda and my room was in the basement. There was a musty smell and lots of insects. I did not sleep well for two nights. Saturday morning we went to one of the school, where our professor’s kids attend. There was a climbing wall there. It was so hard, but very fun. We played soccer with the kids. We then spent the afternoon at our houses. The kids took us to visit their family who all lived nearby; uncles, cousins, aunts, grandpas…. Saturday night there was a church service at the church. It was interesting, but I had a bad headache throughout the whole service. Afterwards we returned home in a storm. I went to bed right away because I was so tried and had a headache. We ate breakfast Sunday morning and then took a bus home. The first thing I did was took a shower when I got home. I then took a long nap. I defiantly learned a lot. The people who live in these types of areas do not have much, and yet are very content with their lives. The children do not have many toys, but find ways of entertaining themselves with what they have.