Nearing Departure

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Today is the second last day here, and I must say I will be sad to leave. Just when you become comfortable living in such a place, you have to go. Anyway, most of the people went to Talanga today to do more work on finishing the tamarind trees, but I stayed here to help Rob paint. We got most of it done and would have completed it, but alas we had to wait for them to come back to bring the rest of the paint, and by that time it was getting too dark to be able to finish it up which was unfortunate, so tomorrow we're going to get up bright and early so that we can do the rest, because we have plans to go up this mountain and climb a really tall tower which is on this mountain.

After supper tonight we went into to town, a whole group of us, and met up with some others who were already in there, and so we sat where all the people usually hang out, and shortly many joined – almost all guys. My best friend of all showed up too – Jimmy (Yimmy Krippy) which was kind of good in a way because that way I had the opportunity to take a picture of him. I got pictures of the whole group standing there too – classic memories of how everything is here! Anyway, this one guy who I met yesterday when we were standing in that big group of people whom they call Chino cause he looks Chinese and whose real name is Edwin, was wanting to take a picture of me with his cellphone, but it didn't have a flash so he was trying to get me to go under the streetlight, but I declined.

Tomorrow they have planned a party for us to say good-bye. We were supposed to have one today, but they cancelled it because the people from the church in Tegucigalpa didn't want to organize it, so they just got rid of it all together, but some people from this village decided to have one anyway, which I thought was very nice of them. It should be an interesting day to say the least. We are leaving on Thursday at 4:00 in the morning for San Pedro Sula – I think that's where it is at least...