Honduras so far...

I got back from our work day early enough to "blog" "note" whatever. We are in day 3 of being in Honduras. The first thing that I must do is rub it in everyone's faces about the weather here. It's cool enough to wear short sleeves without sweating and up on the mountain where we are staying it is cool enough to wear long sleeves...or a sweat jacket. I probably just jinxed us, but oh well. Since I haven't been able to do a day to day up until this point, I will just do a quick summary to bring you to where we are now. Oh and I have pictures, but can't upload them now because Jason has the card reader (and he's not with me right now).

Day 1:
Started SUPER early. Our flight left at 6:50 am, but we had to be at the airport at 4:45. Our flight time changed last month, by about 20-30 mins and it made a big difference. When we made it to Houston, the hour layover that we were supposed to have was cut down to more like 30 minutes, which is NOTHING in the Houston airport, we had time to take our train to our terminal and check in...then they were calling for boarding. When we arrived in Honduras we met the rest of the group (approx 120 people) at the mall. Yes, Honduras has a mall...but what I bet you will really be surprised to know is that this mall has a WAL-MART! It apparently just opened, and I'm not too sure how or if having a Wal-Mart will help a place with the terrible economy it already has....we all know Wal-Mart is good about putting small businesses out of business (and there are a TON of small businesses here) but I digress (nor am I a Wal-Mart basher--I'm just saying). Our first meal in Honduras was Wendy's. Very American of us. After the mall we went to a place called Mi Esperanza which is a school for women founded by one of our hosts, an American woman named Lori Connell and her friend. They teach women a trade (sewing, computers, beauty, etc.) They hand make clothes, jewelry and hand bags and sell to help keep the organization going...they have some awesome things and I plan to specifically write more in depth about them later because they really inspire me (www.womenofmyhope.org). After shopping we went to a very large house and had dinner catered from Taco Loco. Our night ended with a quick devotional and a drive back up the mountain to our mission house. And OF COURSE..SLEEP!!

Day 2:
Our first work day. Jason and I decided to go to paint some walls at Mi Esperanza. After a few hours we were sent to Mauna Loa. to drop off VBS supplies to a group there doing, well, a VBS. Then we were told that the bus was going to Oriental, to pick up another VBS group before heading back up the mountain. Well, that turned out to be not so true. Instead the group we were picking up was a house building group. And they weren't done building said house. And they weren't done an hour later. And they weren't done 2 hours later. Finally, after waiting on the bus for nearly 2 and a half hours the house group completed the house and we made our way back to the mission house. But not without some drama! On our way home, our bus hit a pot hole the size of the bus. It ended up rupturing something that ended up messing up something that caused lots of diesel to leak from our bus--like my technical terms?? ;-) We wouldn't have noticed that this happened (well we knew we hit the hole because I have whip lash) until we tried to climb a hill but were unable to because the bus couldn't get any traction on the wet (from rain and GAS) pavement. After several attempts, our bus driver pulled over and we began getting high on gas (totally unintentional, by the way). Thankfully we were being followed by part of a group in a van. Some of us were able to fit in the van to come back while others had to wait on another bus to come pick them up. We made it back just in time to eat dinner (and we were pretty hungry by this point). All in all, it was an adventurous day!

Day 3:
That brings me to today. Today I went to a children's home called Jimmy Hughes. If you don't know his story, google him. The children there were precious. We had a great time and there were no surprises...which made it even better. I have pictures that I will post soon. Tonight we will have dinner (apparently it's enchilada night) and have our devotional at 8pm (9pm central time). After devotional, I plan to skype with my parents for the first time. I didn't have the app downloaded on Jason's computer until a few minutes ago and they are super excited. It should be funny. I might video it in fact. If you're on skype and you're up my screenname is renada.robinson.

That's all for today!! :)