Friday November 27

Friday
We woke up tired from the night before this morning, but we got ready, had a really good breakfast at the hotel and then we went to the see the clinic that Vida Abudante runs in Teguz. The clinic offers services in eye care, including new lenses and checkups all the way to surgery for cataracts. It also offers ears, nose and throat specialists as well. It’s a great facility, non-profit and they try not to turn away anyone if they can’t afford to pay for their services. They have them pay some so people don’t take advantage of it, but they really do all they can to serve the people of Teguz and Honduras. There are also traveling medical teams who go around Honduras to other cities to do eye checkups and other checkups, too and then refer them to Teguz if they need surgery for very low cost or free. After our visit to the clinic we went to the mall! It was kinda weird actually to be there with so many people and all these Christmas decorations up. It was fun to look around in the stores at the clothes and shoes, and I would have bought some, but realistically how much would I use most of those clothes and shoes in the next year in Gracias? I could buy it for later after I got home or for Christmas break, but most of those things I could find similar in the US. So I can only shop for so long, when I’m just looking and got bored pretty quickly. I just felt odd being at the mall, too, which isn’t abnormal for me in the States either, but even more so here because I haven’t been at one for an extended period of time like that. Vicente had planned for us to go to a town just outside Teguz called Ojojona after lunch. We bought subs and ate them on the way there and arrived in the cute little town of Ojojona. This town sells a lot of homemade pottery things, where you walk into the shops and they’re painting the pieces right in front of you. We wandered all over town, looking at all the little things, buying some of them and jewelry, too. LB even bought some slingshots for her brothers! There was a cute little center square by a church so we took some pics there and then headed back to Teguz and the hotel to chill before dinner. For dinner, we ate at this fun place that had a restaurant and karaoke and mini-golf. I had some good ol’ American chicken fingers for dinner; it was great. We played mini-golf and the course was really fun, but kinda hard so it took a while to finish. To end the night we all hung out together at Vicente’s and stayed up late again.