Parasite and Fishing

Written March 11, 2008

Last week seems like a blur. I came down with a parasite…I was feeling sick since Monday or Tuesday but I finally told Loida on Wednesday morning cause I was feeling so bad I could not even function without breaking down in tears. She took me to the doctor and the doctor said I had parasites…I don’t really know how they could tell but I was put on some meds and was feeling much better within a day. I basically spent all Wednesday in Karens Air-conditioned room watching movies. The doctor told me to stay home for two days but Loida called that evening and said if I was feeling much better that I should come to school cause Pastor Trundle needed me there…mostly what she meant was there are a lot of teachers sick so please come back cause we don’t have anyone to take your classes. Anyway I was feeling much better so I went to school the next day and we made it through the week…Friday we did not have to teach classes we just had to sit in the gym all day and give parents grades. It was so hot in the gym! It felt like an oven!

Nothing too eventful happened over the weekend. It was pretty relaxing. Miss Norma Vega had Lori, Karen and I over for Sabbath lunch. She has had us over twice and both times the food has been amazing! Its really nice of her to have us over cause she does not speak any English and we hardly speak any Spanish.

Its now Tuesday afternoon…this week is actually flying by pretty quickly. We don’t teach class again on Friday because its fathers day so they are having some special fathers day thing…not really sure what all this entails yet. Okay…and who knew that fathers day was on different dates in each country! The other day at dinner some of the SMs started talking about the fathers day stuff and I was like isn’t fathers day in June…and they were like yeah in the US. I was like it should be the same in every country. I was like we celebrate the same Christmas and Easter! Those should be different too then! They told me that was different and I pretty much got yelled at again for being a closed minded American. I just think it would make more sense to have all holidays on the same day in every country! What can you do though!

Oh we counted the weeks we have left here in Honduras and I have 15 more weeks till I get to come home! And there is only like 12 more weeks of actual teaching! Its kind of crazy to think about…

We have all next week off form school and we are going to go to Copan and La Ceiba! I am really excited to get to do some travelling and see some more of Honduras! We will be back for Good Friday and all the Easter celebrations here in Comayagua. I guess it’s a pretty big deal here!

The pictures are from last Sunday when we went on a fishing trip and picnic with some people form the school. It was a lot of fun to get out and do something for a change.