Well it's been a while since I updated this! I had to read through my last post and remember where i left off.
The past week has been quite eventful for me actually. Bethany, the American girl that was visiting, was super, super nice! We hung out for the weekend and on Sunday we went to her friend's house in town for lunch. She had met this family when she was here before and kept in touch with them. They have lived in the States a bit so their English is really good and when they found out I was living here they told me to call them up any time I want to go over for dinner, or to spend the night or whatever. They took my number too and said they'll let me know sometime if they go travelling on the weekend to San Pedro or something. Super nice!
On Sabbath we also went with all the kids to some old abandoned castle thing. It looked nothing like a castle, just an old run down building on a hill. But it was still fun to do something and there was no one there at all. The story is that an old president of Honduras lived there and it was good cause he could see all around for when people tried to attack- they even had tunnels running down into Santa Barbara. But then his daughter got tuberculosis (?) so they burned the whole place down to stop the spread of the disease and everyone left. People still don't go visit cause they don't want to get sick.
Then Rachel came on Tuesday!!!!!! It has been such an answer to prayer to have her here, someone to hang out with and talk to :-) I think she's going to stay all next week as well which will be great. This weekend we're gonna try to see if we can tag along with a group of Americans that are staying about a half hour away- they're going to Copan where there are a bunch of amazing Mayan Ruins. Rachel has been there already but she's up for going again. So I really hope it works out cause it's twice as long to get there by bus than if we can go with the group.
Rachel is one crazy Australian that's for sure! She's 18 and has been travelling central america since nov- and will keep it up til november this year as well! she started off with her brother but now has been on her own for the past couple months and has no plan at all for where she goes next or what she does. Crazy! But she is flying to the states to tour canada and the U.S. later in April so maybe she'll stop by in nebraska for a bit too :-)
This week we also went to a friend's house here in Gualjoco- I met her a couple weeks ago, she's my age, and just finished college so she's searching for a job and not doing anything right now! She only lives like a minute's drive from the Hogar so she was like we should hang out! come over anytime for dinner and we can watch movies or whatever! So we went to Carolina's house on weds night and it was sooo nice! She ordered pizza for us and it kinda felt like being back in teh states again :-) she just got back from 4 months in the states so her english is good and her house is beautiful- both her parents are doctors.
other than that, i had the most depressing discovery 2 nights ago. I've been counting each week as it went by and was like woo hoo only 5 weeks left!!! But then found out that somewhere I had gotten off by a week and it's actually 6 weeks that i have left. UGH. I'm trying to see if i can get a week away to go travelling with Rachel a little but i'm not sure yet if that will work. I'm at the point of not thinking I can last 6 more weeks here. I'm super tempted to leave early and just go volunteer in Choluteca with maranatha again. but i don't want to completely give up yet. so i really hope they give me the time off. i've been praying about it like crazy, but i just can't shake this awful depression. so we'll see what happens. again, i'm just so glad rachel is here right now and that she's willing to spend some time here even though it's not exactlyt he most thrilling place to be.
that's about all for now. happy sabbath everyone! i can't wait to see you guys.
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