Fire Dancers and Jalapeño in the eye

Written Sunday February 10, 2008

Last night we were all feeling kind of stir crazy and just needed to get out of the house. We decided to go to the central park cause they were having some kind of show down there. When we first arrived there were some fire dancers performing by the central fountain. It was pretty cool but they could defiantly use some work…they seemed like they were just a group of travelling hippies to me. Then the show started over by the church so everyone turned and ran over to it. I felt bad for the fire guys cause they were asking for any spare change but everyone was preoccupied and rushed over to the other show so I don’t think they got much. Lori and I decided to give them some limps to help them out. Then we went over to watch the play in front of the church.

It was rather weird…none of us could really figure out what was going on. I´ll admit I was a little concerned about going to this considering last time we went to see a show in central park it ended up being a America bashing performance put on by a Canadian that I pretty much had an anxiety attack after and was ready to go back home to America that night. But this one was nothing like that. I guess it was about how Christianity came to Honduras…the thing we could not figure out was why there where roman soldiers. There were also nun like women and colourful masked people with shacking instruments. It was interesting to say the least but mostly just nice to get out of the house and do something for a change.

This morning Stacy, Kimmie and I all headed out to the Market to by our groceries for this week. For the past 3 weeks all 8 of us missionaries have had to live out of one fridge so we have not been able to by as much food. Lori accidentally broke the seal on their fridge and it took awhile (we are in Honduras after all) to get it fixed. That was a bit challenging let me tell you but thankfully we now have both fridges and are back in business. So anyway with our fridge all to ourselves again we bought a lot of food let me tell you! My arms and shoulders were aching on the walk back from the market carrying all our bags.

It really is amazing how cheap produce is here! We bought 8 ears of corn, limes, onions, cilantro, and green pepper all for 46 limps that’s about 2 American dollars.

When we came home Stacy and I worked on making some salsa for tomorrows meal of fajitas! I had a little jalapeño juice squirt its way into my eye which is not a pleasurable experience in case you were wondering. But don’t worry it was worth the pain cause in the end we wound up with some pretty tasty salsa.

Now as it starts to rain I realize I have forgotten to hang my clothes up to dry…what this really means is that tomorrow’s uniform shirt will not be dry by morning. Honestly though I am not too sad about this fact.