Late Night Rides

***Parents: Don´t read this post if you don´t want to have a heart attack. And if you do read it, I´m sorry and I know you´re going to kill me. But I won´t do it again.***

In Morazan, many people can´t afford cars. But they still need some type of transportation.. so many people get motorcycles. They´re not like the big choppers, just sort of like little crotch rockets. Anyways, last night after church Yadira wanted to go for a ride with some of our friends. So she hopped on the back of Anwar´s bike (her boyfriend), I got on the back of Jose´s, and our friend Pati got on the back of Ronnie´s. I thought we were just going to ride around the village, but the boys wanted to go to a paved road. (there´s only one paved street so all the roads are REALLY bumpy). So they took us out onto the road and all three of us were riding side-by-side. It was SO much fun! All the girls were laughing and squeeling with our hands in the air! The boys probably thought they were hot stuff. haha I was terrified, but having the time of my life also. The whole time I was thinking, ¨this is absolutely everything my parents told me not to do.... whoops¨haha Sorry mom & dad, I won´t do it again!

That night at church we were saying any testimonies from the past week. Pati told us a crazy story! I guess while I was in Copan 2 people were shot here? or maybe close by? but anyways, Pati was in front of this little shop talking to a friend. She said goodbye and walked around the street and then heard gun shots. If she had stayed at the shop for even 2 more minutes she probably would have been killed. It was insane!

School was really good today! I walked up and all of the kids were like, ¨Madisol!!!¨and gave me millions of hugs. This little boy Wilmer is getting so good at reading, and I´ve been working more with Bethel on sign language and pronouncing vowels. I just love them so much!

Tonight a group of 10 people are coming from America to go to the mountain village tomorrow. So I´m staying the night at Iris´house because there´s barely any room here. I´m only going up to the mountain on Saturday for the inaugeration of the new school because I want to have more time with my kids at HOPE.

Okay, I´m going to take a nap. I´m always so exhausted here! We sleep like 9-10 hours every night, and I can still take a 2 hour nap every day. I think it´s the heat.

Dulce Sueños

Temblor, Santa Rosa, Ruinas, y SPS

Wow. It has been quite the week! Rewind......

Wednesday night: Well, when I woke up around 230am I about had a heart attack. I thought someone has bumped my bed, and was about to kill me. But then the entire house started shaking and things started falling off of shelves. And FYI, during a crisis, the rate of their speaking multiplies by alteast 3. So not only am I alone in a dark room (and I´m sure everyone knows how afraid of the dark I am) but I have NO idea what is going on. Next thing I knew we were all sitting on the front porch, the entire village in complete darkness. Turns out it was a 7.1 earthquake. Praise be to God that no one here was hurt!

Thursday: A mere 4 hours of sleep later, I left for Copan with Mari, Kelvin, and Karen. First we went to Santa Rosa de Copan, a beautiful city! Ít´s really hilly, but absolutely gorgeous! They had to run a bunch of errands like getting haircuts, getting new ID´s, etc. It was fun just getting to see someplace new. Then we went to this living place where Kelvin lived by himself for 3 months while studying the Bible. It was GORGEOUS! There was this huge field where Kelvin and I played soccer, next to a beautiful river and a hammock where we sat and told stories. My spanish is getting so much better! We spent that night at their grandmothers house/shack thing in the mountains. Their grandmother is this precious 80 year old lady who´s as strong as an ox (all the while in her little blue silk dress with lace. lol) But holy crap that was the closest to crying I have been so far. All 4 of us, plus abuelita (grandma) slept in one room. Karen and I shared a ¨bed¨made of 4 slabs of wood and a blanket, Mari and abuelita on a bed, and Kelvin on the floor. We also shared the room with about a million mosquitos and a rainstorm. I think I got about 3 hours of sleep, and woke up with 21 mosquito bites on one arm alone! Talk about God testing my strength! But it was still fun, and definitely an experience!

This is Santa Rosa De Copan

Friday we drove all the way to Copan Ruinas, only to find out that the park had closed 50 minutes before we got there. But I think I´m glad, because we got to stay the night in a little hotel in the city of Copan Ruinas! It was SO cute! I absolutely loved it! Hilly and with stone streets and little shops all along the side of the road. So beautiful! And that night I slept like a rock on an actual bed, with a fan and no mosquitos. Glorious. =)

This is Mari, Me, Kelvin, y Karen at the little hotel in the City of Copan Ruinas.

Saturday we got to see the ruins! They were absolutely amazing!! Beautiful and ancient. It was really fun! The guide spoke all spanish, and I actually understood most of it (which was nice)! After the ruins we drove 4 hours to San Pedro Sula to stay at their old house. The house is beautiful! It´s right outside of the Centre (the big city part) and it´s coral with a cute black gate and a hammock on the porch. Again Kelvin and I hung out in the hammock while translating songs back and forth from english to spanish and vice-versa.

Karen, me, and Kelvin in front of one of the ruins.

This place was so so beautiful!


A place where the Mayan King and Queen would stay.

Sunday we went into the city to do some shopping! Boy is it a crazy place! All along the sides of the streets are little shacks where they´re selling things or food. The roofs of all of them are tin or cardboard boxes. From above it looks kind of like a miniature version of the slums in Slumdog Millionare. It was so neat though! We then went to a friends house to rest outside for like 4 hours. Again with the hammock, stories, songs and reading newspapers. Kelvin and I are also getting really good at the Soduku puzzles in the newspapers! And naps in hammocks are probably some of the best.

That brings me to today. I´m back home with Celenia! I´m kind of glad to be back because I´m quite exhausted... but I had so so so much fun! Now I get to go back to my kids at HOPE tomorrow! I can´t wait to see them!

Buen Viaje.