Saturday
Long activity filled day. We tried to sleep in, but I only made it to 8 am. We heard the buses honking their horns at 5 am, church music at 6 am, and then I drifted in and out until 8 when I decided to get up. Laura was up as well, so we headed down to their kitchen of their host family. Their host family is amazing; I had met the guy, Alvin, when I went to Lago de Yojoa, and his two kids. His wife just had another baby as well who is only 5 weeks old and beautiful. We drank coffee, at some pan, and played with the kids for a good hour. They are so full of energy and adorable; Josselyn is eight and in second grade at Abundant Life in La Union and her brother, Josue, is four and a little handful. There newest addition is name Diana Raquel, so Josue kept calling me that instead of just Raquel. So cute. We played some games Laura had made up with them and then went back up to see if Renske and LB were awake.
We decided to go for a little hike to one of their favorite places called Campo de Cerro, which is this pretty field up in the mountains that’s very tranquil. We had quite the time hiking up it since it had rained yesterday; it was quite slippery and I had flashbacks to last weekend climbing Celaque. We eventually made it up and chatted and relaxed, enjoying the quiet and the butterflies flying around. We started to head back down and as we were going over some slippery rocks, Laura fell right on her tailbone and badly bruised it. Poor girl...we slowed the pace and helped her down as much as we could, but it was hurting her the rest of the day. We were planning on going to some swimming pools with one of Renske’s friends, but she hadn’t called us yet, so we made our way to the school. It was so hot and I hadn’t really eaten lunch. On the way we stopped at the few comedors in La Union to see if they were open and had food, but all the women were at the same meeting , meaning no food. We decided to try after checking out the school. We bought something to drink at least and arrived at the school. It’s smaller than Villa Verde, but definitely has its own unique things about the school. The view of La Union from it is beautiful, so we relaxed there for a while before heading back down to find some food. At this point, I was tired from all our walking that day, hadn’t had a meal of sustenance yet, and it was hot…awesome. We eventually found a comedor, bought some tacos, and I was satisfied.
We made cake for Tad’s surprise bday party. We had forgotten to buy frosting so we improvised hard core and made a ‘frosting’ of fresh lime juice and powdered sugar mix together. It turned out alright and tasted good on the vanilla cake. After getting ready we ate dinner for Tad’s and one of the interns birthdays and the proceeded to have his birthday party. Afterwards, Renske, Laura, LB and I stayed up late. Renske and Laura had painted cool pictures on each others backs a while ago and Laura Beth and I wanted to try it out. So even though we had to get up at 4:30 in the morning to catch the bus, we stayed up til 2 am painting each others backs and talking. It was a great end to the weekend.
Sunday
Sunday morning came way to early at 4:30 am to catch our 5 am bus, back to Gracias. I hadn’t had any breakfast before we left, the roads weren’t paved and they were very curvy, so I was feeling kinda carsick. Despite that it was a beautiful ride through the mountains and we arrived back in Gracias around 8. We decided to have breakfast at Guancascos, then headed up to Villa Verde. I took a nap, relaxed, called family/friends, and went to church at night since it was our last Sunday with everyone. Last week of school!
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