Three weeks in

I really thought I´d be updating this much more frequently, but since most of my time is spent on training stuff here I don´t use the internet very often. I´m thinking this will change once I get to my site in May... in the meantime here are a few highlights of my days here in Santa Lucía:

--it´s really pretty here. The town is set high in the mountains from Teguc, so there are plenty of vantage points from which to see the entire capital city. People seem to be used to us gringos hanging around: in addition to the 51 Peace Corps trainees that come twice a year, there are continuous groups of Japanese folks that come on a Japan-style Peace Corps program. Plus there´s a language center here that plenty of gringos attend to learn Spanish. Plus there are plent yof tourists on the weekends. Needless to say, this is not really Honduras de verdad, but I love it anyway.

--I´m eating alot. The food consists of plenty of beans, tortillas, rice, bread, coffee, fruit and lots of buttery things, all of which are pretty delicious. I eat all the time, yet I counteract this with my bouts of diarrhea, so in all I think this evens things out.

--My family rocks. The little kids especially like to do lots of jumping and dancing. Jumping and dancing around bubbles. Jumping and dancing around the kittens. Jumping and dancing to the telenovela theme music. I never get anything done at home, but I don´t really mind.

--With a few exceptions (like the food, the climate, the banana trees, the coffee plantations), Honduras is nothing like Costa Rica. It´s really beautiful where we are right now, yet I feel I haven´t yet seen the real country yet. Tomorrow and Friday I´ll be visiting a volunteer in La Paz (about an hour from Teguc), so I´ll hopefully get to see real life as a Volunteer.

--Last night the kittens both fell asleep on my lap. Awesome.

I´ll write more soon!