So Honduras is great. It's a beautiful country. At least if you like warm and green, with big mountains with waterfalls in the background. They say it's the second poorest country in this half of the world, next to Haiti. But it barely seems bad enough to compare to Haiti.
The other day I realized that my internal compass was turned 90 degrees since I came here. At home, I always oriented myself to the east. Here I do it to the north. If you don't have an internal compass, you don't know what I mean. Too bad for you.
It's amazing how much stuff we take for granted in America. Like having water come out of the sink when you turn it on. Water doesn't come out of our sink. But you get used to it. Like you get used to not having a light in the bathroom, or not necessarily having electricity and water 24/7. You use it when it's there, and you manage when it's not. If you want to take a shower and the water's not on, you just use the bucket full of water that they keep in the shower for just such a time.
The one bridge here sort of makes me nervous. We cross it every time we go anywhere. And it's falling into the river. There used to be just one little dip in the middle. Now you can tell rather easily where the supports are because it goes down everywhere else. Every time it rains a lot, it falls farther in. Nobody seems concerned, though. Once it falls down, they'll just put a temporary metal one up until they can get a more permanent one built. Guess that's how they do things here.
The public transportation here is a constant source of amusement. How many people do you think can fit on a standard school bus? We ride the bus back and forth to church on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In the afternoon it gets pretty full, because that's when everyone gets off of work. The one time we managed upwards of 90. It was a little crowded. But highly entertaining. At one point in the ride, there were a couple guys hanging off the side of the bus. The most interesting part was when people near the back wanted to get off.
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