Because of the political mess in Honduras, the Honduras AMIGOS projects that were supposed to start on June 30 got cancelled. So our project is getting 9 more volunteers (who will only be able to do half the project, of course.) I am getting one more on my route, who will take the place of the girl who went home.
My heroine moment of the week:
I rescued one of my volunteers from a large spider in his room. It was about 4 inches across and ran really quickly. Luckily, there happened to be a machete in the room... I did the job quickly and painlessly though.
The funniest thing I saw this week:
I was in Rivas trying to figure out some logistics for midterm this weekend, and I was about to walk by a nice, air-conditioned office building or something of the sort. A young man in his 20s with a white collared shirt and nice slacks walked out of the building right in front of me, carrying a young goat, which was cradled in one arm. He hopped on a bicycle resting on the sidewalk and rode off with his goat. Oh Nicaragua.
The funniest thing that happened to one of my volunteers this week:
My volunteer was riding on the handlebars of her host sister's bicycle because it had rained a lot that day and the streets were covered with huge mud puddles, and she wanted to stay dry. Everything was going fine until the bicycle got stuck in the mud. The volunteer's host sister hopped off the bike to a shallow spot and barely got her feet muddy; my volunteer fell backwards, butt-first into the mud. And the worst part is that it's never just mud in the streets - it's mud mixed with cow poop, horse poop, goat poop, and god knows what other kind of poop. Ew.
Love,
Maya
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