December 7, 2007 - Proud To Be A Canadian...

It's hard to believe it is December and I'm sure at home all of you are getting ready for Christmas already – seems so strange. Here the people are started to decorate their houses too, some have Christmas lights up, and others have little Santa type of decorations, etc. It looks very out of place, I must say.

Anyway that is quite beside the point. Today was a kind of day off, although not exactly. We were supposed to be going on a trip up this one mountain to Don Mario's coffee plantation, basically just to sightsee, but it ended up that the trip was postponed until Monday, which I was happy about, and so we worked today since we will have Monday “off”. A group of 7 or 8 was taken to Talanga (the nearest “town” where we go to use the internet) to work in the Tamarind plantation, but thanks to my Canadian status I stayed back here. (In other words, I volunteered to stay back, and Rob picked me to help him with the painting over the others “because I was Canadian”). So our task was to paint the outside of the church, and since there is only one roller here, I painted the base and around the windows with a paintbrush, and we listened to some good ol' Great Big Sea in honour of our East Coast Canadian heritage. :) It was an enjoyable time, and we were soon finished and had the rest of the day to do what we needed to. Following lunch the other crew came back and I was reminded that the girls had been invited by the famous Maria and Mariela to go to their place at 2:30pm, and it was nigh unto that time right then, so we took off and went to their place. It turned out to be a bit of an unfortunate time because this lady was very quiet, and the girls were quiet today too, and the TV was on, so we sat there and spent most of the time watching the show that was on, which was entitled something to the effect of Duel of Passion, and it was quite an odd show with the worst actors I have ever seen, and of the poorest quality. Shortly after it's end we told them that we had to go and went on our merry way. I had to go back to get my computer first so the others went on without me, but it was not fully charged so I decided to come back in an hour to pick it up, but since I had nothing to do in town and was alone, I went back to Buenavista and cleaned up some of my stuff and then Rob and I went back to drop off more stuff to charge and to pick up my computer.

Tomorrow we will be going to Tegucigalpa for the afternoon/night and part of Sunday. We were invited to various things out there and so will be travelling in their bus and will be billeted out for the night, and will hopefully be able to go to some stores and also use the internet...