Thursday, January 29, 2009

A few pictures from Chocho´s visit



Chocho´s first time on a plane!! He took this from his first of four flights that day...four flights in four different countries...it was quite a first trip :/


Our first day in San Pedro Sula


Me with Zarca in her new house-- Sasha ran away :(




She liked Chocho alot...I don´t think the feeling was mutual though.


His digital camera sometimes scrambles his pictures, hence why his legs are way to the left of his body. This is in Siguatepeque.



More of Siguatepeque...



On the way to the caves in San José


Listening to the vice-mayor/tour guide talk about the caves



Yes this is how you get into the caves, you wriggle on your belly for about 20-30 feet, then stand up in the middle of a den of millions of bats and fun cave formations.


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Holidays and CHOCHO!!!

I went home for Christmas again this year. There was a part of me that felt I should´ve stayed in Honduras this year to see how the holidays are celebrated here, but an overwhelming part of me just wanted to go home. So I did. I was only there for 8 full days so I only was able to see family, but it was a really nice and low-key trip and, just as nice, a very easy transition back to Honduras afterwards...... well, relatively easy. I managed to lose my wallet and my suitcase on the flight back to San Pedro, and as a result had nothing more than my passport, some Lempiras and a big bag full of Christmas ornaments that a Honduran living in Manassas wanted me to send to his family. Luckily my delightful PCV friend Molly and I were on the same flight, so she took me under her wing and we had a nice lunch w/other PCV Marc. I was then picked up by the incredibly nice family of my Gtown friend Paul Bonilla, who live in a very nice spot in San Pedro and fed me and let me stay in their nice guest room for two nights and drove me to and from the airport when my suitcase finally turned up. If the Bonilla family is reading this (which I doubt but I hope they´re reading this), THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!

Then came the most exciting moment of maybe my entire time in Honduras, the moment my boyfriend Miguel/Chocho arrived into the San Pedro airport from a hellacious flight that included connections in Brazil, Panama and Costa Rica, to visit me for 18 glorious days! I was waiting and beside myself with the typical Honduran fatalism thinking, no, ASSUMING that the worst had happened and he would not show up. As I waited, praying to God and Allah and Buddha and Saint Christopher and Vishnu all other heavenly beings and prophets I could think of that he arrive safely, I received a text from Chocho´s little brother asking if he´d arrived yet. As I tried to respond, pushing my feelings of panic and anxiety aside to create a logical response in Spanish, I felt a tap on the shoulder, looked up and ------ it was Chocho!!!!! So it wasn´t the romantic open-armed greeting I´d imagined, but at least he´d gotten to Honduras in one piece.

So far it´s been a very successful visit, we´ve visited the caves in San José, gone to the bustling city of Siguatepeque to do such exciting things as apply for a new debit card at the bank and buy anti-parasite medicine since I of course am sick again :( and we´ve gotten stared at by the entire town as we walk around little gossipy San José while holding hands, which I think judging by the looks we received is something in San José that only prostitutes do. Oh well.

Pictures to come from my new fancy-pants camera. THIS one has more than 2 megapixels. Increíble!