Marcha

So two days ago the school held a little protest march. There are two things we´re protesting

1. On the road to Puerto Cortes, there´s this part that isn´t paved for maybe 200 feet. Its just bumpy dirt and when cars cross it they make lots of dust. So we were protesting that they finish paving the road because I guess they´ve already payed for it. Also, there´s an elementary school right next to the dirt spot and I guess there have been kids getting sick from inhaling dust or something.

2. There´s been some business man extracting dirt from the river here in Omoa, and the school doesn´t like that. It´s dirt used for making cement, and I guess they think its unfair that this “Señor” is getting all this free dirt and that it isn´t fair because at the school they´re constructing a new building and they need dirt too. I don´t know, something like that.

So we marched all the way to chivana (about 2 miles away) to the unpaved part of the rode, and then blocked traffic there for like an hour. I thought it was kind of dumb to block the traffic…people just wanted to get by. We just stood there and people would talk on the microphone and would say “El pueblo unido…” and we would respond “…jamas sera vencido” (The united town will never be defeated).

So yea I guess it was an experience. I´m not too sure what I think about it…like if it´ll work or anything. I´m pretty sure it was dumb to block traffic for an hour though, I don´t think that really helped anything… only pissed people off. One car they let through heading for Omoa because there was apparently a sick person inside, but then realized taht the hospital is in the other direction…so the next car that said that they didn´t let pass.

In other news, I´m planning on visiting Harold and Karol in the time between Christmas and new years. Karol´s a cousin of my dad´s,  but I´m just going to call them my aunt and uncle to make things simple. They live in Tegucigalpa. Everything´s going to work out really well, because we arranged it so that I´ll be able to stay in Omoa for Christmas, the day after head for Tegucigalpa, stay there for a couple days, and then come back the day of the 31st to be in Omoa for new years. And also, there´s going to be some family from the US visiting them during that time that has two kids arround my age, so that´ll be cool to hang out with them too.

And tomorrow is my last day of school. After that no school until february. Fun huh? I hope so. Maybe I can get good at soccer or something.

So that´s all for now. I REALLY MISS HOME!!!! Ahhh…it seems like forever before I come back. And I really want to come back. And likewise, it seems like forever before I´m gonna be totally comfortable with spanish….hurry up time. Hurry up. I´m sick of having to have everything explained to me. I wanna be independent again. And clever. I miss being clever.

Hart would be amazed

Ok so I went to the beach today just to watch the clouds and stuff. At about the time the sun set, everyone was gathering in a circle close to the water, so I went to see what was going on.

 Some guy caught the freaking biggest fish I´ve ever seen!!!! It was seriously like some sort of mutant. I would estimate about 4 and a half feet long, and at least 2 of me fat in the middle. OMG it was amazing. It must have weighed at LEAST 150 lbs.

And it didn´t completely die until after like 20 minutes. Every once in a while it would jump up and flop like a little fish except its huge. Finally the guy brought out a knife and slit its belly. There were some eggs inside that they took out. It was funny because they brought like a a little pail to put the eggs in, but they didn´t fit, so they had to get another bag too.

Oh and when they pulled up its equivalent of a cheek bone, there was this red stuff that kind of looked like the stuff on a coosh ball but the little pieces were a lot thicker and shorter. Kind of like a really frilly red sponge.

But yea, so it was pretty much amazing. And I didn´t have my camera so all you people will never see it. Oh and its called either guaso or guasa I think … (the type of fish) I wrote it down but I don´t have the paper with me.

So yea I know I haven´t written in a while. Everything´s going good though. This is the last week of classes in school, the next week we have final exams. After that I don´t have school until February 1st!! Pretty tight. I´m supposed to contact my local advisor about my community service project for our summer, so maybe I´ll get around to that, maybe now. No one has contacted me…so yea. Afs requires that we have a community service project during the summer so that we “have something to do” and don´t just stay in the house all day.

I took more pictures of the house and stuff like 3 weeks ago or whenever it was right after I put up those other photos, but I forgot to bring them. Next time.

So yea, I´m never going to think of fish the same way again.

 NOTE – Ok I wrote this like a week ago, but I guess it never got “published” and was only “saved”. So here you go. A week old.