Aqui estamos en Santa Lucia

Greetings! To our readers (if there are any), this is our first posting DESDE HONDURAS…woohoo! We have been getting used to our new lives and schedules here in Santa Lucia. After traveling 16 hours Sunday to get here from Washington DC, we were exhausted. We met our host family who we will be staying with for the next month, and although they are nice and their house is comfortable, we were both thinking to ourselves…what the hell are we doing here?!!! This is natural of course, and that unsettled feeling has lessened with each passing day. Our first night here, our anxieties were making us question our decision to be here, but already we have started to appreciate this new way of life. Although I’m sure everyone goes through this, especially the first couple days when you are still working through the awkwardness of living with complete strangers who don’t speak your language, but it was a bit hard on us as a married couple. Some might say it would be easier, since we have a “buddy,” but it is also more challenging, thinking about our friends back home who have started building their lives around children, professional jobs (that actually pay) and new homes. This new adventure has not been a step in that direction, and you naturally will question sometimes. HOWEVER, that is not to say we are not enjoying ourselves immensely. We are having a great time practicing our Spanish and we are really looking forward to our business projects . We haven’t found out what those are exactly, but we’ll keep you all (or the ONE person who actually reads this) clued in when we find out.

Our host family has a nice home here in Santa Lucia and we even have a hot shower. Some of our fellow trainees have different situations. MANY do not have the luxury of hot showers, and one guy has 4 burros that live just outside his window, who hee and haw and serve as his alarm clock. Awesome!!!

Our stomach health is still good (although we hear its coming), we’ve made a few friends and life is generally going pretty well for us.

We have a pretty little spot of Honduras here, and we promise to get some pictures up next time we post something. We have yet to take a picture here, but it has been very hard to get much time away from our training and from hanging out with Alba Rosa, our host mom. She is a great cook and they do actually eat chile and other spicy stuff here, so as you can imagine, we are very content.

That’s all for now. We’ll check in a little later. Ciao amigos!