Friday-Sunday, May 21-23

Friday afternoon finally came and I was ready to relax for the weekend. Since there’s not trash pickup here in Villa Verde, most people burn their trash. We used to bring it to school when it got full, but lately we’ve been doing it the Honduran way and burning our trash in the backyard. We had three bags of trash and I started building the fire for it. It takes a while for some stuff to get going so I was watching it, throwing stuff on to it when all the sudden I hear this huge explosion and felt something hot and sizzling on me. My flight or fight response kicked in so I ran back to the house, tore off my ipod, whipped the cold shower on and stood there for a few minutes waiting until my adrenaline calmed down enough for me to figure out what happened. I was covered in black ash stuff, soaking wet and some spots of my neck hurt. I dried off and looked at my neck in the mirror. I had about 5 little spots that got burnt on my neck. I figured out some ‘empty’ mousse can that was in the trash must have exploded and it shot right at me, therefore giving me the burns on my neck. I hit a wall after that and laid down for a bit to calm down from my eventful fire making. To help me relax, I watched Godfather for the first time. I realky liked it; it was well done and a classic. I need to see many more classic movies, so that’s one of my list.

Saturday I did some schoolwork, then watched Wolverine instead of working (it was Saturday after all haha) and then went to town to see the end of a soccer game our older boys were playing. Afterwards Tad, Mr. Bran, Laura Beth and I tried to go to Villa de Ada, which is this neat place in Gracias that has a restaurant, pools to swim in, a little lake to row around in, and some big meeting rooms. LB had gone there before to see Dani and Eunice (our students that switched schools) perform at a talent show there and she said it looked like a fun place. Oddly on a Saturday night at 6pm, it was closed. I don’t understand Gracias and their time schedules for things. I was bummed because I was looking forward to doing something different. Instead we decided to just walk around the premises, see the lake and pools and see the monkey and birds they had there. We still needed dinner so we ate at Don Juan’s and headed back up to Villa Verde to crash.

Sunday was another town day because our girls were playing Minerva (the other more prestigious bilingual school in town). Because of the rivalry, it was a great game. The first half no one scored, and then in the second half we pulled away and won 3-0! The girls were ecstatic. They had an older student ref the first half of the game and then decided to make it fair and wanted someone from Vida Abudante to ref. Well, Tad got suckered into refereeing for the second half of the game (with flip flops on haha). After the game he and I went to Guancascos for lunch and internet and returned to watch some of sub-10 soccer game. I was getting tired and didn’t feel like sitting through another game so I went back to town to get dinner because we still had no gas in our house. I picked Tad up on the way back, while LB stayed to help Mr. Bran clean up. We watched the Godfather Part II (long movie) to finish the weekend.