dreams

Ok so officially in my dreams I live in Pasadena. It´s so weird. But while I´m in my dream I believe it until I wake up and can think straight.

But last night I went to school and hung out with band kids and then dave´s dad picked up me and briana and dave at night and dropped me and briana off at my house and then I said bye to briana because apparently I thought I was going back to Honduras the next day and it was sad. Then when she left I found out it wasn´t true and I´m gonna stay in Pasadena longer. End dream.

So yea it´s really weird. Homesickness to the max? Probably.

Fotos!

So I´m not good with photobucket…sorry. These first few pictures I took two days ago with the family´s razr phone.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1734.jpg Alberto and Gordo in the porch of the house.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1749.jpg Sunset at the beach. But you can´t see the sun because of the clouds. This one is actually probably the least impressive sunset I´ve seen here, but it´s still pretty. I´ll try to get a better one with the cell phone another time.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1748.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1751.jpg Those guys there are fishing. There´s always a bunch of guys fishing there on the pier. They don´t use rods though. They just have a roll of fishing line and a lure and toss it. It´s OG fishing.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1750.jpg Alberto with the beach in the background. Well there isn´t that much actual beach because the restaurants are really close to the water.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1753.jpg More sunset

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/Recent/11-10-06_1752.jpg That´s a bicitaxi. Guess what that means!

And these next ones were just on the computer from before. They´re from whenever. Actually it says the dates on most of them, but the month and day are switched because that´s how they do it here. so yea.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/jorgeluis.jpg this is the celeste´s kid, the sister that lives in san pedro sula. the one that´s really spoiled. But he´s cute. Jorge Luis.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/joel.jpg Me rockin out. This was taken soon after I arrived.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/gordo.jpg Jorge and Gordo. Pimp status

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/cumpleale.jpg I guess it was Karol´s birthday. That´s Karol

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/24-06-05_1950-1.jpg That´s Paula, the sister that lives with Celeste in San Pedro

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/22-09-06_1417.jpg Alberto

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/21-09-06_1952.jpg Sitting on my bed

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/21-09-06_1951.jpg Again..I didn´t know my middle finger could bend like that

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/20-02-06_1751.jpg Gordo

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-03-06_1655.jpg Pool in the side “yard”. It´s cement

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-03-06_1653.jpg A weird looking picture of Karol. She´s really really cute in real life, trust.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-03-06_1652.jpg Aura, Karol, Gordo

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-02-06_1718.jpg Jorge and Gordo

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-02-06_1717.jpg Gordo

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/19-02-06_1010.jpg Again

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/16-04-06_1512.jpg Javier looking all serious.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/53-02-02e.jpg Two guys I met on the side of the road…*cough*

So yea that´s it for now. I know there weren´t really any of Connie, Raquel, or Celeste, so I´ll try to take some. I said these are all from a camera phone right? so yea. And I´ll take some more of Aura and Javier too. And Karol. There were a freaking lot of Gordo…but he´s cute so it´s ok.

So now since it´s been over an hour already, I´m gonna give a shortened version of the post I wrote last time that got deleted…

1. Wrestling here is called Lucha Libre. Lucha Libre…Nacho Libre… it all           makes                sense                     noww   

2. There was this thing at school that seemed like a testimony competition, but it was a “concurso de oracion” on the life, work, and mission of Jesus. But it wasn´t objective at all. There were like 6 kids who participated and it just turned into “you need to accept Jesus or you´ll burn in the inferno”. Ok not everyone was that harsh, but one guy actually said that..

3. There´s this awesome frozen, milky, sweet, ice cream like treat here called topogillo (tow po eee ohh) and It´s so bomb. And it´s cool how they serve it too. It´s in a little sandwhich bag that´s tight up, and then you bite off a corner of the bag and suck it out. Its AMAZING you guys are all missing out.

4. I met up with Mario that drummer guy again last week. I gave him my number and jammed with him for a bit and he taught me this awesome latin rhythm that would make jimy proud. Hopefully I´ll be able to hang out with him again.

5. I´ve been really enjoying psychology class. I actually understand it. We´ve been talking about the personality and some of Freud´s theories. Apparently babies from 0 to 8 months experience sexual pleasure in their lips, tongue, and mouth. I wonder which baby´s he talked to…

6. I told my mom before that they fry the platanos so much here that they taste like french fries, but I was partially wrong. They fry guinellos, which are like green, not ripe bananas, to make Tajada´s, which taste kind of like french fries. So yea. Just to clarify. Oh and I like them, they´re good.

7. Some may remember that monster pimple I had on my back a couple months ago that wouldn´t pop..well I got another one. ON MY FOREHEAD!! But it´s gone now so it´s ok.

8. It´s weird here, because sometimes the Karol and Gordo act so spoiled, but they ALWAYS share their snacks. Like a tiny little bag of chips, they give me some and whoever else is there.  It makes me want to be a more generous person.

So that´s it. Peace people!

OMG

I FREAKING WROTE A LONG POST AAND CLICKED PUBLISH BUT IT GOT FREAKING DELETEEDDDDDD

freaking crap. well I guess I´ll re-write the stuff some other time. I made a list before…AGHH I HATE UNRELIABLE COMPUTERS!!!!!!!!!

A day in the life plus Copán

 I wrote this to someone and thought I might as well post it here, since I don´t remember if i´ve talked about this stuff or not. If I have, well, yea..

I wake up, take a kind of half shower where I only get my hair wet because my room is air conditioned and the water´s a tad bit cold and I usually don´t feel like putting my whole body under. Then I get dressed in my uniform and eat two pieces of this kind of little sweet bread stuff here that people eat for breakfast and drink a cup of coffee and then walk 3 minutes to school.

At school we do different stuff every day and I don´t know the schedule, but I do know wednesdays we have computer class for like the whole day, so I try to get a computer where the internet works so I don´t have to play pinball for 4 hours. Sometimes during our break I buy a “baleada” which is like a thicker, squishier, awesomer tortilla with refried beans and cheese in it and a pepsi for 10 lempiras which is like 53 cents. And sometimes I play FUTBOL with the kids in my class but it´s annoying because I´m all in like formal shoes and my uniform, but everyone is so it´s fine.

Then after school I walk home and take a shower and change out of my clothes into shorts and flip flops and where the clothes I wore the day before yesterday because they do laundry every day here. And I eat lunch and hang out with the Gordo and Raquel (the house cleaner) because they´re the only ones home at that time (12 oclock). Then I either watch tv or read the newspaper or play or whatever. Sometimes later in the afternoon me and alberto go to the beach or something and swim and jump of the 4 foot tall pier and stuff. But yea, pretty much I have like 8 hours of whatever time a day because I go to sleep at like 8 oclock because I´m always really tired. Oh and I wake up at like 6:30, i forgot to say that.

SOOO that´s a day. There aren´t any discos here so I don´t “go out” or whatever, but I would probably be too tired to anyways, even if there were.

PART II

These last couple days we had our “adjustment” orientation in the city of Copán where there are these ancient mayan ruins and stuff.

Since my family doesn´t have a car, I got a ride from a teacher to another family´s house who´s hosting a girl from Italy, then the mom gave me and the Italian girl a ride to A family´s house in Puerto Cortes, picking up a German girl on the way. Then we got a ride from the Puerto Cortez family to San Pedro Sula where we met up with everyone from our area. (so pretty much me, two Italian girls and a German girl rode from Puerto to San Pedro)

Then we waited for the Tegucigalpa area people to get there with a two buses, and then we all left for Copan.

We stayed in a really nice hotel there. It wasn´t huge, but just the atmosphere was awesome. And I really liked the city too. Well, more of a town. But tourists go there a lot.

Oh, when we arrived we slept because it was late.

The next day we had our orientation, which was fine and I don´t really remember details. Oh but it was in spanish! And I understood everything. w00t. But it was basic spanish. We also just hung out a lot. Oh and I was talking in english a lot of the time with my american friends because i just wanted to relax.

The next day we went to the ruins which were AWESOME and I took pictures. And later some of us rode horses up into the countryside to a small little “village” but it was really just like passing a couple houses. But it was really fun too.

Oh and the last night I went to a disco for the first time. Oh and also, AFS didn´t allow alcohol at all during the whole thing so DON´T WORRY MOM. Kids were smoking cigarettes, but German, Belgian, and some Italian kids do it regularly and it isn´t against the rules.  But the disco was fun, I danced a lot and stuff, but I really wasn´t digging the raggaeton. I got like super excited when they played like one freaking Black Eyed Peas song.

So the end. Now I´m back in Omoa and today´s Paula´s birthday (one of the sisters that lives in San Pedro Sula) so I guess we´re gonna have cake and stuff.

And I guess that was the end of our all AFS gatherings, so we aren´t going to have any other group trips like that for the next 8 months. That kind of sucks because I made a lot of cool friends that live on like the other side of Honduras, but oh well. 8 MORE MONTHS TO GOOO