Can someone please explain to me why my cat always gets horrible asthma a week before I leave the country? When I lived up in the mountains she had asthma off and on, but it always got worse right before I went to the US. Now, down in the city, she hasn't had any problems. Except the week before I went to the US for Christmas and now. She is wheezing away and has been like this all day. I hate having to leave when she is in this state. Fany said maybe she can sense that I am leaving. Fany takes good care of her as far as feeding her and cleaning up after her, but Hondurans are just not cat people. Except Samuel.
Today was a big wedding for people from my church. I was invited, but unable to attend because it was the last night with the dancing ladies. I noticed something funny about Honduran weddings. When people talk about the wedding, the big thing they talk about is the food. In the US when we go to a wedding we don't really think about the food ahead of time. Unless you have to choose fish or steak. Then you might give it a quick thought. But you would never say, "Yes. I was invited to the wedding. Can't wait to eat!" As this week went by I heard that several times. Another Honduran factoid for you.
Last night the water came for the first time all week. Unfortunately it never made it up to our house. When I got home from the gym today I asked Fany if she heard the water come last night. She said there were some drips at 5 a.m. I said, "So I can wash my clothes now?" She looked at me in silence. Then she said, "Not if you want to shower." I chose a shower over clean clothes. Especially since I was just returning from the gym.
Molly let me do a load of wash at her house. (She gets water every 3 days!) Then we went out to dinner. I have been saving my money for over a month. We went out for sushi to celebrate our last night with the dancers. It ended up only costing $15 per person. We ordered a sushi boat! I had never had a boat before. It was quite exciting.
We talked about the difference between the Honduran kids in dance classes and kids in the US. The teachers said kids in the US aren't as eager to work. Here the kids ask for extra one-on-one help and never want to stop. They even seem to enjoy learning the basic fundamentals, which are not always so fun. We were happy to see how much the kids of Los Pinos appreciated the classes and took advantage of the opportunity to learn.
Tomorrow we will go to the church early and help the girls prepare to dance. Then off to the airport to drop of the teachers. We are excited to do this again next year. Dancing is great for the kids of Los Pinos.
This morning I made a post on FB to set up times to meet with people while I'm in Salt Lake. Right now I have ONE open slot. Everything else is booked, morning, afternoon, and evening for eight days. Crazy! I am going to leave SLC exhausted but full of love from all my buddies there. As I always say, if I were ever live in the US again, Salt Lake is my home.
Two general observations:
1)You know your tooth is messed up when it hurts to eat a room temperature cucumber. (I have a feeling my dentist appointment in SLC is going to be an expensive one.)
2) Yesterday morning the second I walked out the door, a bird pooped on my arm. Splat. This morning I was brushing my teeth when I noticed that spiders are living under my medicine cabinet and their poop is falling down onto my toothbrush! Let me tell you, these spiders poop a LOT. I am hoping the poop theme will not continue tomorrow.
