Sunday, July 12, 2009

If this whole engineering thing doesn't work out I've got some back up plans. Thank you Honduras. The jobs I have lined up so far:

Selling fruit on the street corner

Security guard (note although it is true that I have yet to see a female security guard, I like to think I'm pretty intimidating)

professional power point presentation maker

selling newspapers on the street corner

shoe shiner

In the meantime I am enjoying my honeymoon quite a bit. Wait, what?! I can't even tell you how many people have asked Matt or I if we are on our honeymoon. Even when we are in the most unlikely places, like the social work office. When we tell them no they become very puzzled. I try to explain that we are friends from school but the doubt remains in their eyes. They just really can't fathom that we aren't dating. I'm not sure how it wouldn't be blatantly obvious from our body language but I have noticed that I meet a lot more people when Matt isn't around.

For instance last night on the pier/train tracks some boy just sat down about two feet away from me and would ask me random questions about every two minutes. Then a gringo sat down and talked to me for about 30 minutes. He had started traveling in Panama in March and just made it to Tela about a week ago. It was really interesting to talk to him because he had no agenda or future plans. After talking with him I realized that I don't think I could ever travel without a purpose.

Story two. The Red Cross asked me to make a slide show for them to show to their donors and others at the end of the year. I eagerly agreed and on Friday was given the material to make the video. When I told them I would do it I didn't realize they would give me over 3,000 photos to work with. Good news I have until August. Bad news that's only 25 days away.

If anyone has little kid games that can be played with zero supplies (or really simple things that I can find) that are appropriate for ages 3-8 I would love to hear them! If they are in Spanish, it's even better! I'm volunteering every morning for about two hours playing with kids at a day care and my legs and arms are tired from see-sawing and swinging for the whole time! I've got duck duck goose and ring around the rosie but I would love to have more ideas.

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