Our Honduran Adventure!: Mmm...Gatorade.

We are living in an environment in which daily Gatorade cocktails are delicious...and necessary. Our delicate American selves were not built for days upon days of Honduran food and heat. Loren was a casualty early on...Robin did fine until presented with deep fried tacos with a raw cabbage dressing.

We're going to the grocery store tomorrow.

Today we had a nice adventure! Our class (see below...not a good picture of any of us) plus the other 2 classes (which each consist of one student and one teacher) went around the city of San Pedro Sula. We started off by going to the Guamalito market, which is an arts and crafts/souvenir market FULL of all kinds of really neat handmade items. Half of the market is souvenirs and the other half is foods. Belkis (another teacher, who is one of our favorite people ever) bought some pineapple and let us taste it...so yummy. After Guamalito we drove to the east side of San Pedro Sula and saw another market from the windows of our van (see below). Next we drove to El Centro (downtown). We learned that each Honduran city has a park and a Catholic Church at the center (again, see below). We wandered around downtown for a little while and just took in the sights...it was a very busy place! We walked over to the Hotel Sula for lunch and ate in an American style diner (complete with milkshakes...Robin had a chocolate one). Our classmate Brian generously paid for all of our lunches...hooray Brian!

It was an interesting afternoon...we learned a lot about the culture from Ariel, Belkis and Diana, the 3 Spanish teachers. We also learned more about the teachers themselves...we all thought Diana was married, but she laughed and laughed when we said that...turns out she is only 19. Age is an interesting thing here...everyone has thought that Robin and I are 24 and 22, respectively. Sweet.

We dropped the other students off at the Hospitality House, which is in a very nice neighborhood full of big, beautiful houses. We wondered who could afford to live in such houses, and decided it probably wasn't Spanish teachers or sacerdotes (priests).

We're planning on a quiet weekend...turns out the 4th of July party doesn't start until almost 9, which is almost our bedtime. So, the grocery store will be our main event tomorrow. Sunday we'll go to the Cathedral with the girls.

Right now we're going to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Arrrrg.