Pinapples don´t grow from trees!

Last weekend I ran for 2 hours through Central America via the Pan American Highway-which stretches from Alaska to the southern tip of South America with a gap in Columbia. Afterwards we stretched in caves and cooled off in some waterfalls. The mist was blinding and we jumped off the rocks into li´l pools around it. I couldn´t stop smiling-ít was like when I bought my car times 10!

Earlier this week we built a mud brick stove in someones house. It helps the smoke from going inside the house reducing the risk of upper respitory infections. A cockroach crawled on my shoulder.

We also had people living with HIV-AIDS come and speak to us. It was the first time I was aware I was talking to somebody with AIDS. I´m not sure I can describe how that felt.

BANANAS! I´ve probably done about 95 condom demonstrations in teh past week. We went to a local school and taught them about HIV-AIDS. So much fun. I joke that I´m going to eat the condom afterwards and they just think its the funniest thing they´ve ever seen. We had a comercial sex worker come and talk to us and she did a condom demonstration with her mouth. En fuego!

-Chocolate brownies.....mac and cheese.....vegtables.....I will miss you....you have been good to me....R.I.P.

Photos!!----I lied........I can´t get them up......maybe in a couple of weeks when I´m in Teguc........I find out my site and what I´ll be doing on Tuesday! eeep!!

"I'm going to burn off your balls"(english)

I'm sure ya'll already know this, but I keep forgetting to mention that I'm probably the drop dead sexiest person to walk to face of this earth. I mean everywhere I walk people do the "chachacha" sound, talk about my eyes, and tell me how beautiful I am. One guy, my personal favorite, said that he couldn't believe I came from his rib. BAH! Adam and Eve! Love it! p.s. My host sister asked if people with green eyes see green all the time. I went with Joli (have I mentioned her? my 32 yr old BBFFL) and her host family to this aaaaaaaaaaaaamazing lake in, of course, the middle of the mountains. I took millions of pictures that I'll some day put up. We took a water boat ride, a tracktor (sp?) ride through a coffee plantation, and saw Jarrassic Park esc (have I seen too many movies?) water falls! It was so unbelievable. So green and mossy. I swear when ever I'm deing and gasping my last breath I just want to slide off the edge and fall with the water. I still can't get over the fact that I'm in Honduras (which means like a dip in the land underwater/ valley? p.s.) I wonder if you can buy A.D.D medicine over the counter here?

Hospital

I´ve finally gotten the illeness!! I spent Thursday night in the hospital because I was throwing up everything. How exciting! I felt like I was in a movie having a flashback of some far off time and place. They rolled me down this dimmly lit green tile hallway. Babies were crying far off in the distance and there was a calm mormour (sp'?) of this forgien language all around me. I think I just ate something funny, but there was a scare that I had appendisitous (sp?). I got a shot in the butt, my blood drawn 4 times, an IV, an ultasound, an x-ray, and they tested #1 and #2. But alas I´m fine and enjoying my time roaming around the city. Oh I also got a throat infection. There isnt any pavement here so the streets just coat your throat and lungs with thick dust pancake mix. The first day I was here my host mom kept spitting like she was trying out for Titanic or something. I was so grossed out. aaaaaaaa sorry my friends are waiting to go walk around. I´ll write more soon bubye!!

¡¡Siguatepeque!!

Hola!! I´m have moved on from my li´l town life onto bigger and better things. I´m in the city of Siguatepeque! (I had to ask the guy next to me how to spell it) We´re having Field Based Training here...which means all of the health volunteers, buisiness, and water sand peeps split up and go with their project groups to different sites to learn more about their projects. Am I making sense?

We just got here yesterday and we´ll be here for the next 5 weeks! I am sooooooooo happy. a city! Plus I have moved from the ghetto into a real house with a t.v., my own bathroom, warm shower, and an awesome family! I live with 2 parents, their 37 year old daughter (Betsy sister I think you´re part Honduran :) exotic), and her 2 kids 13 and 16. So fun theyre sooooooo nice and I´m their first volunteer that they´ve had and they ask me all these silly questions and comment on how ´peeps from the U.S. like to walk a lot and are so amused that I like coffee. When I ask what¨¨ because I don´t understand what my host mom is saying she just TALKS REALLY LOUD..its hilaaaaaaaaaaarious. I´m not deaf, just no speaky espanol.

A couple of weeks ago we had to go out and visit a currently serving volunteer to see what the life was like. I had so much fun. This girl was living in the middle of a city (not what we think...no tall buildings....but paved roads!) with another volunteer living in the same city. The person I was visiting just married a honduran a couple of weeks before. (I am seriously having problems with this english right now....I´m officially mute) We drank fresh cocanut milk off the tree and I got to use a mashetti (sp? the big knife-sword thingy)!!

Michael and Betsy thanks for the package love it!!! I almost cried when I saw the cliff bars! I´ll be able to write more now that I´m here. We have movie theatures and stores too!! hiphip!