Start of the Internship and Honduras

So yesterday was our first day of our internship with Proyecto Aldea Global. It was incredible and very interesting. So we got there at seven in the morning because that’s the time that we supposedly are supposed to start cough cough. Anyways we had devotional which was pretty cool in the morning. After that Andrew and I were introduced to the team and then everybody just kind of went and did there own thing. The first part of the day people were asking us what exactly we were there for and that made me think haha. I finally came up with my answer, “ I just want to learn Spanish and help while learning it”. It became my default answer. The first half of the day (3 hours ish) we spent going through about 50 computers to find one that worked well enough to do some work. Since Andrew has a laptop he can do some excel work on it when he brings it there tomorrow, but me, well… I have to use the slow bug. No big though, I’m grateful that it works haha. After lunch time and a little bit of work, we were taken to a city about an hour away which was crazy beautiful by the way, called San Antonio de Comoyagua. We went with our boss Magda, and our homie Mario, to watch the appointment of the new mayor. It was real great to watch. The ceremony was also recognizing organizations that do work in the communities and Proyecto Aldea Global was called up to sit in this special section. It was crazy! I wasn’t expecting that but we were joined by about 10 others from other organizations. Our boss got called up to receive an award and it was just great to be around that type of people and in that kind of community. The spotlight was on us for a second. Kinda weird!Yesterday was the appointment of all the new mayors in the different municipals in the country. I believe there are about 280 municipals in Honduras. I’m not really sure why we went to the one an hour away but it was definitely worth it. The scenery was incredible, the national anthem was cool to hear, and the people were really fun. I also got to try alcitrones which is an amazing candy fruit. It just might replace Chiky’s (my current favorite Latin America Snack). But who knows. On the way home we stopped at this lady’s house for some cookies and café. I ended up refusing coffee and after some talking I learned that its more polite and respectful if I at least drink a little. I was very hesitant at first, but then I tried it with everyone looking at me. Incredibly, it was ACTUALLY GOOD! I’ve never had coffee that tastes like that. I guess it’s that rich Honduran coffee. We then took off and we got back home pretty late (about 6 ish) ( but waking up at 6 made the day a lot longer) and I was just super tired after all that. Today was really great also. It was our second day of our Internship and everything went really well. We started off putting in number into Microsoft excel for the first 4 hours. I soon got bored and went out for some lunch. After more numbers I went outside by the motorcycles to get a glimpse of them and then I aske3d if I could try. The owner said sure and then gave me a quick walkthrough and then I just went with the flow. It was super fun. I’m gonna try to keep practicing if I can. We then walked around downtown and got some ice cream. After that we went to church with our host family and that was quite interesting. We broke into small groups to pray. I PRAYED IN FRONT OF PEOPLE for the FIRST TIME IN SPANISH! It was crazy. I know I didn’t do all that great, but I tried my best and I think they understood what I said. It feels kind of weird because I almost feel like I’ve learned more in these first three days in Honduras than I did in all my time in Guatemala. Perhaps it’s just because Guatemala helped me prepare to learn a lot. Who knows. So our days look pretty full of Microsoft excel and hopefully some more moto. Well we’re looking to have some type of adventure this weekend and the weekends to come so I hope we are able to do some more work/exploring of Honduras. I’ll keep updating. Adioso