Feeling Like Home

Well, it's been a while since my last post. I'm not sure where to start! I guess I will cover the basics and go into detail where needed :) On saturday Brogan and I traveled with a few missionaries here (including Julia and Estelle Barnett) to La Ceiba to go to the dump and run some errands. The dump is the city dump where they talk all the trash. Over 2,000 people live on and off of the dump...they wait for trucks to come and dump trash to rummage through to find things to eat and sell....Wow, talk about a change from home. It was absolutely incredible to imagine over 2,000 people living there. No one had shoes on, clothes were torn, they were rude to one another, they picked on one another. It was similar to seeing hungry crows pecking each other to have the food all to themselves. The ministry the missionaries have there is splitting up the children into groups and leading a study similar to one you would see at a VBS.. then after they pay attention they eat soup that a local church provides. I'm finding most evangelism here through subliminal messaging. Some witnessing is open, but most is done through coercive things... not in a bad way, but a way that sparks interest. After going to the dump we spent the rest of the day in Ceiba shopping for groceries, eating lunch, and going to a souvenir shop.
In the past few days we welcomed 3 new interns: Randy, Sam, and Adam. There are all so kind and eager to learn. This week is the Week of the Student here in Honduras..meaning that there is no school. So we set up with a few people to hold a two hour English class in the bilingual school and have invited anyone willing to learn. We held the class on monday, we will go tomorrow and friday. It went very well. Most of our teaching is based off of Dr. Don's already written curriculum, so it consists of us pronouncing English words, correcting the students when they are wrong and explaining why English is the way it is (which is not very easy!). After teaching at the school, Brogan and I went over to Bictelia's (principal of the Bilingual school) house to hang out and spend time with her family. She is wanting to learn English, along with her two daughters Delmi and Deyni. Delmi is a 20 year old teacher at the bilingual school, and Deyni is a 4th year medical student in Tegucigalpa (the capital). We are becoming quite close with these women. They teach us Spanish and we teach them English. Yesterday we made lunch together, which included fried plantains, shrimp, queso (really strong cheese), and beans. I loved the fried plantains... they were delicious.. They taste similar to potatoes when cooked, so they were great! We also made tortillas! Wow, not an easy task...I dropped the dough multiple times!!
Today we spent the day with Lyndi. A young woman who teaches in the school in Balfate. She is one of the candidates for missions in Dr. Don's opinion. The only thing holding her back from going is her English not being up to snuff...so that is our job, to get it up to snuff. So today we went over to her house and worked on English and learned more Spanish!. The new interns came with us and I think it went well. We were worried she might feel a little overwhelmed with all of us trying to help, but the Lord was gracious and allowed us all to contribute in non-invasive ways!. We made more tortillas because the Rumbaughs were expected guests and wanting to have plenty...so of course Dr. Don made it our job to fed the crowd :)
All is well here, I got my camera lens with the intern Samantha, so I have been taking pictures trying to figure out all the buttons. Here are a few. These are from a big rainstorm we had today :)