Saturday, August 15
Saturday was our travel day from Teguc to Gracias. We were so ready to see the place where we were living for the next 10 months. Vicente wanted some new music for our trip so we we each made playlists on CDs. He also suggested we play poker, like Texas hold ‘em. We didn’t have anything to bet with though, so he was like we’ll bet with chulas. I didn’t know what chulas were so Vicente explained they were like slaps on the wrist. So we betted with chulas! I won a few times and got to give everyone some chulas. We got lunch on the road and decided to take the shorter way to Gracias through La Esperanza, but it was more hilly and curvy. It was like a constant rollercoaster for a few hours. I was so ready to get out of that van when we finally got to Gracias and our hotel. It was amazing to finally see this town everyone had been telling us about and it lived up to what we expected. It was small but had everything we needed: a few supermarkets, a market, and many other shops. It was beautiful though!
Saturday was our travel day from Teguc to Gracias. We were so ready to see the place where we were living for the next 10 months. Vicente wanted some new music for our trip so we we each made playlists on CDs. He also suggested we play poker, like Texas hold ‘em. We didn’t have anything to bet with though, so he was like we’ll bet with chulas. I didn’t know what chulas were so Vicente explained they were like slaps on the wrist. So we betted with chulas! I won a few times and got to give everyone some chulas. We got lunch on the road and decided to take the shorter way to Gracias through La Esperanza, but it was more hilly and curvy. It was like a constant rollercoaster for a few hours. I was so ready to get out of that van when we finally got to Gracias and our hotel. It was amazing to finally see this town everyone had been telling us about and it lived up to what we expected. It was small but had everything we needed: a few supermarkets, a market, and many other shops. It was beautiful though!
After settling in the hotel, we all went to see the school up in Villa Verde. It was my first time riding in the back of a pickup truck in a while, but it was so much fun! People do it all the time here, I mean it makes sense; you can fit so many more people! The road was unbelievably rocky and bumpy up to the school though, which we were not ready for! The school though was gorgeous; the landscaping, the classrooms, the courtyard, the view of the mountains we have everyday from our classroom!! We were all so happy and excited to see the school where most of our time was going to be spent for the next 10 months! After that we drove further up the mountain to see our houses. Apparently there was some miscommunication about housing, which houses we could use, if they were ready for us or not…it was frustrating. But they showed us 3 houses that we would have between 6 of us living in Villa Verde. All of the houses here are made of brick and concrete so no carpet, which is kinda hard to get used to. Some of the houses had screens on the windows, others didn’t; all of the houses needed to be cleaned because the former owners stuff was still there. So there was still a lot to be done to get these houses ready for us to live in, which made our reactions to the houses not as exciting as we were hoping they would be. And bugs….TONS of bugs in every house. Yuck.
It was getting dark though and we had to head back down to town to have dinner. I was SO tired and hungry and felt so out of it, like I was ready to collapse from the travel, the emotional rollercoaster of seeing the school, and not having food in 7 hours. We went to Guancascos, which is a hotel here owned by a Dutch lady who originally owned the school before Vida Abundante bought it. We finally got our food and then went back to the hotel to crash.
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