The first picture I´m sending is of my new kitten! We´ve decided (my friend Alayda and I) to call him Concetido, which means something like ¨dear one¨ (I think). Sol (soledad), Alayda´s sister and Ana´s daughter, is holding him.
Here we have Omar, Betty, Marleny and Daniela at dusk by the soccer goals. The kids play here every evening as the sun sets.
These are Alayda´s oldest daughters, Marbelie and Jolibet. They are standing in the doorway of their house.
This is the Catholic Church I go to every sunday for a service (there is no priest, so there is no mass). Alayda usually goes with me (you can see her back in this picture). There are three women that lead the song and do the readings. It is pretty simmilar to mass in the US, but the content of the sermon is usually a little more literal.
These to photos are of my new house. As you can see, it needs a little work. Today I am buying cement and some other supplies so that we can fix it up this week. I will be moving in in the begining of December (hopefully).
This is little Luis (people call him Pichin), who will be my neighbor in my new house. Oh! He´s holding his little brother. The afternoon that I took this photo he told me that his mom had gone to pick coffee--he was at home caring for the kids. He is eight.
This is Ana (the teacher I live with) and Jairo (her brother). This week we went up to their coffee finca in the mountain to look at the construction they have done there. The cement structure they are standing on is where they are going to pour out the coffee to take off the shells.
This is Marjorie, peeling an orange with a machete. That´s right, a machete. Until I came to Honduras I never knew that a machete has so many uses, but now I know that you can cut the grass, chop up firewood, dig holes, all with a machete.
Here we have the whole troop in Jairo´s truck. From left to right, starting in back, is Ada (the other teacher I live with), Jennifer (a girl from town), Ete (Ada´s sister), Ana (the teacher), Omar (Ete´s son), and in the truck is Panchita (the mom of Jairo, Ana, Ada, Ete, and the teacher in the school) Marixa (Jairo´s wife) and Jairo.
Finally I´m sending a picture of my closest friend here in Planes, pictured with the flowers she loves to care for outside of her house. Her name in Alayda. She is about 32 (I think), and went to school until 4th grade, after which she helped her mom by selling bread in the community and the nearby ones. She married for the first time (well, here people don´t marry often, they just live together and call it marriage) when she was around 17 I think. Now she is living with her third husband (this one of eight years) and she has three really sweet daughters. Every time I visit Alayda I end up staying longer than I planned, and we laugh a lot. She teases me about Ben a lot, calling him Mincho.
Well, that´s all for today. This next week, I am looking forward to a community meeting in Cienegal, a town a two hour hike away. We are going to do a community needs analysis and hopefully start working on a latrine project. Wish me luck at running a meeting in Spanish! I will try to take pictures there!
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