yeaaa

So I spent 2 weeks in Tegucigalpa with aunt and uncle Karol and Harold. It was amazing. The first 5 days a family came from Chicago and they were really cool. Wait I already put up pictures from that. So yea. Actually, i think it was that same day..I was on gmail and my american afs friend instant messaged me. I decided since i didn´t really have any plans for the next couple days I would go visit him in Comayagua, which is in between Tegucigalpa and Siguatepeque (where the seminary is) and is like 2 hours away. So I hopped on a bus and went there. And it was bomb. He has an awesome host family, and we had tons of fun. We went to this park where theres like a lake to go boating in (canoes, rowboats), a (freezing cold) pool, and a ZOO! but the zoo was kind of sad. They had like monkeys and birds and stuff. But the sad part was the had a LION. And it was stuck in a tiny little cage with a cement floor. Bored to death. It made me really depressed for a while. And there are like 3 leopards too, in a cage next to the lion one. So yea…honduran zoo. But the rest of the park was really cool. That lake made me wish i had a girlfriend, it was really romantically pretty. Someday I´ll take my wife there. And it´ll be sweet.

And I´ll just say I really like the city of Comayagua too. It´s like an actual city, with like paved roads and stone buildings and stuff, but without all the commercialized advertising stuff that plagues all big cities.

And the disco was pretty tight too

So now I´m back in Omoa. Same old, same old. School´s starting soon though. I hope that´ll be chill. I´ve almost finished “around the world in 80 days” since I´ve got back. In spanish mind you! It´s good, I like it. I guess it´s a classic or something. Oh and either here or when I get back I have decided that I´m going to read Don Quixote! Yes, that´s right. I will, I promise. The whole freaking thing.

Ok so to be honest, I feel lonely a lot of the time. I think its good for me though. Because I don´t think I´ve ever truely felt lonely before. Actually, I don´t think this is true loneliness either, but definitely more than I´ve ever felt before. I mean, I´ve always had like super tight homies and super tight family my whole life, and well, right now i don´t. Don´t get me wrong, I´m still enjoying myself for sure. It´s just…different.

Everyone´s getting a PHAT hug when i get back. (that´s right, with a PH)

peace.

ok..

http://s90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/zoels/teguc/

there, I loaded all the pictures onto photobucket so they should be visible there. If it STILL doesn’t work..i don’t know what to tell you. But it should work.

But when I uploaded them they got all out of order, so you can play a game and try to match the captions from my previous post with the pictures!

Updates! with pictures

So as some may know, on the 26th of December I came to Tegucigalpa (the capital of Honduras) to visit my aunt and uncle (who are missionaries here) and another family that was going to be here. Since my relatives aren’t as digital camerally challenged as I am, they were able to take pictures, so here they are. Oh and since I’m lazy I’m just gonna be pasting the e-mail that my aunt already sent to my family. but I’ll add a few more things if i feel like it.

Dear Bill, Jill, and Ben,

Happy New Year!  Joel is in the living room trying to find the Rose Parade on TV.  Hope it will be on! (I found it! It was definitely a cool thing seeing pasadena all the way from honduras. I watched the rose bowl game too, USC pwned!)

Here are a bunch of pictures of Joel that I thought you might enjoy seeing.  As you know, a family we hadn’t met from a supporting church in Hinsdale, IL, came to spend a few days with us (Dec. 26-31).  They’re in a lot of the pictures and also took some of these.  Jim and Gwen are the parents, and their kids are James (a junior at LeTourneau University) and Christie (age 15).

I’ll send these in a couple of installments, since there are a lot (well I’m putting them all together, so lucky for you guys).  I made them kind of small (maybe too small?(I didn’t write that, she did)) so you can get them more easily.  If you want any of them larger, I’ll be glad to send them bigger.

The first meal at our house after everybody arrived:

Playing a labyrinth game::(That game is freaking CRAZY but I can’t beat it. It’s where you turn the nobs so the ball rolls around and you don’t want to fall in the holes.)

Hiking at a national cloud forest (7,000 ft.) called La Tigra:

 (I love how Harold’s head looks like it’s photoshopped in there…he’s actually really tall)

Picnic lunch at La Tigra:

Entrance to an old silver mine at La Tigra:(HUURRR) (that wasn’t on purpose)

Here are some pictures of our time in Siguatepeque, where our little seminary is.  (Harold is chairman of the board.)  We stayed in 3 rooms; ours had a little kitchenette.

Joel, Christie, and James in our room.  We were playing a game.

At the market in Siguatepeque:

Joel at night with sparklers.  He bought some firecrackers at the market. (ooohhh I like this one)

Pulling weeds at the seminary (Carol, James, Joel).  Jim and Harold were setting up computers in the office, so we decided to pull weeds.

Great view! (HEYAAA!!)

James and Christie in a tree at the seminary; Joel on a swing.

Playing soccer with some of the professors’ kids in the early evening.  Joel is on the right.

Eating a soup supper in our room.

Looking over the seminary buildings.

Visiting the Evangelical Hospital in Siguatepeque.  (Harold is a board member there also.)

Looking at a small sugar cane mill (Carol, Joel, Christie): (Check out my hand there, it looks like I don’t have fingers or something!)

At the Pulhapanzak waterfall: (oh and the shirt I’m wearing was my christmas gift from my family. It says Honduras, see!)

Eating sour fruit by the waterfall: (it wasn’t THAAT sour..)

Picking the same sour fruit:

Eating fish by Lake Yojoa: (ok I so I know it looks like its sour or something, but it wasn’t, that fish was just freaking amazing. It’s definitely the biggest fish I’ve ever eaten.)

Another great face!  (He liked the fish, but it doesn’t look like it!!) (and I wasn’t making these faces on purpose either, they just came out liek that…kinda funny lookin though. Oh and I should say that from where I was sitting I was facing Lake Yojoa and it was an amazing view and I wish someone had taken a picture of that too.)

Here are the last pictures.

At one of the churches we started in Tegucigalpa:

Our final evening meal together at a typical restaurant called El Patio:

Refried beans are in one clay pot (with charcoal underneath), and stretchy cheese is in another.  Joel is trying to get the cheese to go onto his tortilla. (AHHH that stuff was amazing..)

Ok so I guess that’s the end of the pictures. There were more but those are the ones that my aunt pulled out of me and I’m too lazy to find the other ones.

So I went to the doctor today. I had had these little scabs on my body that at first I thought were bug bites, but turns out they’re not. They just these little circular things that kind of fill up with puss and get hard and don’t go away. I had bought this anti-bacterial soap and some cream stuff, but it didn’t work, so like I said, I went to the doctor. Turns out I have a staff infection, and the doctor prescribed some antibiotic pill thing and some other type of cream. But it should all turn out fine now. And the weird thing is that these little scabs don’t itch and don’t hurt..they’re just kind of there.

But yea, DON’T WORRY MOM! haha. Peace people.