1/4

This week marks the 1/4 point of the trip. (I come home 3 months from Thursday and I have been here for 1 month on Saturday.) I can't believe it. In some ways it feels like I've been here for a year, but at the same time it feels like I just got here last week.

This week was our first week of semester classes. It is exhausting and it's hard. It's so hard to focus for 4 hours straight of classes taught in Spanish. We're having a hard time understanding, but it will come. I can already see a difference in my communicating with my familia. I think a big thing is just that I have more confidence. With this confidence, though, sometimes I just start talking and they look at me and laugh and then I realize that I just said that sentence in English (without knowing it...). It's a little frustrating, but it's more funny because I'm comfortable/more comfortable with both languages and I just don't realize that I switch back and forth.

Last night was a fun, relaxing night. A few of the girls in my neighborhood and I went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for a special recipe for brownies. We then walked to another super and then back to the first one and then to one of our houses. We made the brownies (Honduran style) and then watched a movie, enjoying pupusas (my favorite Honduran food) and then brownies. It was great.

Today I was going to go to Santa Lucia with Allison and her host family, but the transportation didn't work out so that's going to have to wait. Flexablilty: Welcome to Honduras. But it's actually just fine. We have tons of homework... or maybe it just takes longer to do it all in Spanish. Either way, the more I get done today, the less stressful the week will be. :)