¡Cheque!

I am sitting in an internet cafe in Honduras!  There´s one in the next town over from where I am living, so I should be able to update and email from time to time.  The boys that are working here are playing a soccer game, and every minute or so my thought process is interrupted by ¨GOOOOAAAAAAL!!¨  Also, the keyboard here is a lot different than in the US, so it´s taking me a long time to type this.

My host family is great... it´s a young couple with a 4-year-old daughter, a puppy named Fiona, and 3 cats.  The daughter is really skeptical of me (or doesn´t understand my poor Spanish), but I´ve learned that she really likes Cartoon Network and doesn´t like milk.  We also have the same name, so she´s Andrea Pequeña.  Fiona isn´t house trained, so she likes to just walk around and poop on the floor, and my host mom cleans it up.  I use the word "mom" loosely since she is only 5 years older than I am.

It´s only day 3 here, but I´ve already had some eventful experiences.  I felt sick within a few hours of landing, which was odd since I hadn´t eaten anything, but I´ve since realized that it was probably altitude sickness (we´re in the mountains).  I didn´t pay it any mind until they were about to give us our immunizations yesterday, and I had a fever.  The nurses were alarmed, and I ended up getting ushered this morning to a clinic in Tegucigalpa to have bloodwork done.  I felt perfectly fine by then, and everything checked out fine, so it was more of a tour of Teguz than anything.  One of the staff drove me there and showed me the embassy and PC office, and the president´s house.  We also passed a 4-car crash where the car in the pack was a pick-up truck with a bed full of beer bottles.

Last night I went with my host family to a fiesta for my host mom´s friend´s birthday.  It was a surprise party complete with a piñata and tons of wild children.  We ate a lot, and danced, and I played tag and rock paper scissors with the kids.

That´s about all I can think of now, and my internet is about to expire!  But things are well, and I should be able to update a decent amount.  As they say here, ¡Cheque!