What I Like About My Site

• When I take a stroll around the soccer field at night, the fireflies light it up with red, yellow, and green lights. It's magical. Sometimes they even light up my room too.
• We have two dogs that stay at the house and bark like crazy at night whenever a stranger comes by, effectively preventing any sort of break-in.
  
  
  
• It's only an hour away from a large city with a mall, movie theater, American fast food restaurants, street vendors of every imaginable item, and very large superstores that have everything a house would need, for cheap prices.
  
• It's about two hours away from the beach.
  
• There's an airport nearby so whenever anyone wants to visit, we won't have to travel too far!
  
• Right now, the weather is insanely fresco. It's actually quite strange because when I first got here, it was so hot I had to sleep with a fan on at night and would still sweat. Now my bed has a sheet AND a comforter, and I wear socks and long pajama pants and I sleep very, very well.
  
• It's near the third largest mountain in Honduras.
  
  
  
• I know I complained that we don't have paletas, but we DO have these things called topogigos (known as charramuscas in other parts). They're just plastic bags filled with some sort of liquid and frozen. Like banana and milk smoothie, nance juice, whatever.
  
• My host family has all sorts of animals – hens, roosters, chickens, chicks, ducks, ducklings, dogs, cats. Well, cat. Unfortunately this adorable little kitten died one morning all of a sudden :(. 
• I really love seeing how caring the animals are of their babies. The hen follows its chicks around all day and at night fits herself into the kitchen corner with her three babies under her wing. Whenever there's food given out, she always makes sure they eat first before she gets her share. The duck follows its ducklings around, even when they duck under the fence (duck, get it? Haha, terrible pun, I know =P) to feed elsewhere and she can't follow because she has this rope tied perpetually around one of her legs so she doesn't run away. It's sad. It's also quite amusing to see chickens and hens and roosters in trees, and even sometimes on the roof! I've got to get a picture, it really makes my day seeing that.
  
  
  
• There's a lady that sells "cocteles", or frozen fruit cocktails made with real cut up fruit. They're delicious! But at 20 Lempiras each, kind of too expensive for me to afford everyday (that's a little over $1). I've only ever tried it once and it's definitely a savory treat for a hot day.
  
• Roads around the urban center are paved, or empedrada'd. I'm not sure how to translate that – they have stones instead of pavement. But nice flat stones.
  
• The municipality building seems to be, for the most part, in order. They have computers with internet, database programs, and personnel that know how to use the programs and who actually work. This means I can do more than just teach people how to use a computer and the programs on it. Yay!
  
• Hammocks are abundant and everywhere. Very comfortable to rest in and read a book. Probably one of the reasons I've already finished almost 3 books in 3 weeks.
  
• Karate class – Hi-Ya! Ok other than me being a dork, this is awesome because now I can maybe work with the instructor in creating my own self-defense/Tae Kwon Do classes.
  
• Internet works!