Saturday and Sunday, March 20 & 21

Saturday
I GOT A PUPPY!!!! I woke up Saturday morning to a surprise! Sarah had gotten it the night before. We had been talking about getting one and we had been looking and finally found a healthy one! He’s so cute and his name is Fitzgerald, or Fitz for short. He’s about 6 weeks old, brown with a little black, and floppy ears. This is my first puppy; I never had a dog growing up so I have begun to realize how much work it is to take care of it. It’s kinda like a baby, but not quite as much work. I have to get up in the night to let it out to go to the bathroom, feed it, play with it, wash it, all the things that come with dog ownership. He’s our pride and joy though! Besides finding out about the dog, I needed to get some shopping done before Semana Santa and Tad had to get some things too so we made it a trip to town. I bought new dresses for the beach and a sweet pair of aviator sunglasses and Tad found what he wanted as well. Its great to know you can usually find what you want if you look long and hard enough.

We were waiting for our mototaxi near Guancascos and saw met Jen, Renske and Laura. They were in Gracias for the weekend with some other Project Trust (their British organization) people and invited us to go to the private hot springs! I was stoked because I’ve only been to the public ones because they’re closer and better known. But the private ones are obviously privately owned, less busy, and cleaner. They’re farther outside of town and for that reason we haven’t had the means to go there in a moto. Tad and I didn’t have our suits, but we worked with what we had; besides that’s how half the Hondurans do it, go bathing in their clothes in the hot springs. The girls’ director drove all of us to the springs and we relaxed there for the rest of the evening. It was great to just be able to be in nice warm water and be able to hang out with friends. I finished the night by watching the Pianist, which was quite a heavy movie, but very good.

Sunday
I slept in today, had breakfast and then went to river to lay out since it was my last weekend to do that before Spring Break. I took care of some spring break stuff, hung out with my housemates, and played with puppy. Tonight was also my first night of doggy duty. I have to admit I got crappy sleep because I went to bed kinda late, woke up at 1:30am, 4:00am, and finally at 6am. But a puppy’s gotta do his business; it’s my responsibility and the others girls’ as well. We take turns doing doggy duty nights so we can get a few good night’s sleep.