Another day, another night.
We awoke to Rob being severly dehydrated, for the fourth time in his life – which will hopefully cause him to think about how he needs to drink water in the future...Poor guy.
Anyway, this morning we were kind of slow to start the day and there wasn't really anything that I needed to do, so I spent some time studying and talking to people who also were not working, etc. Then after lunch I went to help get some firewood, and carried out a big log, and following that I was so warm and tired that I rested for a time, then readied myself to go play games again with the children at the plaza. When we got there we were surprised to meet up with a whole busload of other Gringos, who came from Chatanooga Tennessee – very close to Southern, so they informed us. They were only here for the day and had spent the rest of their time in Honduras in Tegucigalpa where they have an orphanage type of thing, a ministry called the Forgotten Children Ministry. We talked to them for a little while, and then they took off and the games began. Once again Maria and Mariela found me, and they were excessively hyper today and it began to wear on my nerves very quickly, being pulled here and there, whilst you had to endure their yelling and attempts to speak to you and tell you where they wanted to take you; etc, etc, etc. I also had my camera and they were constantly begging to take pictures with it, and were just hanging off of me the whole time. Then, there were these guys who would “send their greetings” to Elissa, via Maria or Mariela, guys she had never seen before, much to her horror. And shortly after another message came about how this guy wanted to get a picture of Elissa and I on his cellphone. We of course refused, and the message was sent again, and we refused again, so finally the girl came over with the cellphone herself, but we didn't exactly notice it right away and couldn't make our escape, so she took this horrendous picture of Elissa drastically saying “NO!” and me looking ridiculous in the background. She ran off to give the cellphone back to the guy. I quickly told Elissa to ask the girl to bring the cellphone back because we “wanted to see the picture” AKA delete it! She brought it, and as quickly as possible, Elissa figured out how to delete it, and the picture was removed. The funny thing was that when we opened the cellphone up, there is a place where you can write a little message on the front screen, and what it said was: ElisaSarita – which is what the people here call me, in other words little Sarah.
Anyway, these girls were begging me to first go with them to worship or something like that (not sure why there was a worship at such a random time in the afternoon, but whatever) and then to go to their Grandmothers house (Sarah) where they took me the day before. I refused about a zillion times because it was majorly awkward since I didn't know enough Spanish to carry on a conversation with them, and so they spent half an hour or so begging me and calling this person and that person over to try to translate to me, and finally they went to get Henrietta to try to get her to go. She also refused, unless someone else would go with her, so I said that I would, and Marylin also joined in on it. So off we went. We arrived and Sarah warmly greeted us because she's nice like that, and since they (Henrietta and Marylin) have a much better grasp on the Spanish language they brokenly asked questions and managed to understand a fair amount of the conversation, which was nice. We were brought coffee and some pastry type of thing again, and after we had consumed it we thanked them and told them that we had to depart due to the darkness that was falling, and because we did not have a light for the way back. We were waylaid once on the way back by two girls who were their cousins asking us to go to the Prophecy church for worship, but we once again explained that we had to get back before it got too dark, and we eventually were able to carry on our way.
We got back and had several different visitors, Freddy, Noel, Dani, and Diego. Noel and Dani were looking at the Spanish-English dictionary with Rob, trying to find a synonym for the word creepy, which they are now obsessed with, since I tried to explain to them that their friend and the one who is apparantly in love with me, is creepy. But unfortunately, in Spanish this word does not seem to exist, which is kind of ridiculous because a culture like this definitely needs such a word...Or at least that could be said if you did not understand the culture, and were not used to such attention. Anyway, the evening was quite enjoyable and amusing, and a good time was had by all.
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