Girls in Action and Adventure expedition

May 8, 2010

This morning we had Girls in Action at Arte Accion. It´s a program they run on Saturdays for girls. The girls that came go to bilingual schools and they are a higher class than the ones we teach at the rural schools. We made CD case photo frames (for mother´s day gifts), flowers out of tissue paper and beaded jewelery. (Mom would you be so happy to see the beads I brought going to good use). A lot of the Huron in Honduras students made stuff for themselves too! The hemp was a big hit! These girls seem to have a high self-esteem and self-confidence. When asked to wait their turn they replied in Spanish (maybe because they thought we wouldn´t understand) that they didn´t have time to wait. It was a completely different audience than what we were getting used to at the rural schools.
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That afternoon, Anisa and I went to Danielle´s and Shannon´s house to see if they were home. We decided to take a small hike to see a waterfall where we could swim. But since Danielle and Shannon didn´t come in the morning, Anisa and I wanted to attempt to find them to let them know what we had planned for the afternoon. They weren´t home at the time, but we successfully told their host mom that we were planning to go to see a waterfall. We later found out that she said our Spanish was good. Yeahhhh!

We took a bus to get to the spot were we would start hiking... The hike was actually a mountain climb. Anisa and I lagged behind most of the time! Elisia told us that it was advertised for extreme adventurists! and I was like... haha that´s not me. It took us about an hour just to walk to the spot where the waterfall was. But it was worth it when we got there... We swam for a bit in this pond like pool of water at the base of the waterfall. Josh decided he wanted to carry me across the water (maybe showing off a little) and when I was like no-no-no... (since my shoes were already soaking wet), he picked me up anyways and almost immediately we fell backwards into the mud. Josh got the worst of it...
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That night Anisa and I chilled with Shannon and Danielle at their house. We just got there as the power went out. But we had a chance to see their cute little puppies!!!!! The mama dog barked a lot as us, at first. Guess she saw us as a threat, since we were knew to the house. This woman is staying at their house who is an archaeologist. After we chatted for a bit we went to Richard and Elisia´s house and played some sherades--in Spenglish. Later we went back to the place beside ViaVia for a mother´s day ´party´. There was a live band, but I was really too exhausted by then to enjoy it so Anisa, Danielle, Shannon, and I went home for the night.