So its been a month. A month of learning. Learning Honduran spanish. Learning the way the community here functions. Learning how to limit my time on the internet. Learning how to attempt to keep my blog going. Learning patience. Learning humility. Learning how to keep going when you are super tired. Learning all about Amigos.
We started tutoring. We shadowed all of the workers and the volunteer jobs to see where we could find our niche...oddly enough, i am going to be working in Health, who knew :). I am also going to be doing work with Social work as well, which will be awesome. I am pretty excited.
Its pretty awesome to be apart of this Hogar. In one converstation, i am asked why the planets exist and why we cant breathe up there--and in the same breath begged for a carrot. I love turning around during MOnday and TUesday nights when we have free nights with the boys and see a frisbee coming from one direction and a soccer ball the next. Its fun to prestar (loan) things to the boys, like my rings or necklaces and tell them my story. I cherish the moments when I get to listen to their thoughts and what they love to do.
In one minute I am laughing and joking with one, another gives my an impression of Harry Potter, and a third wants to show me las pulseras he made for his padrinos in the States.
Yes the language is still a struggle. Yes, Im still pretty unsure of punishments and how to take care of boys who are coming off of the street and from horrible life situations, but all in all, I know that in as much I can give them, I am recieving from the boys here ten fold. Somehow I landed the blessing to live here for the next 14 months, and I will take each day and embrace the trials, the joys, the exhaustion and the excitement.
To all those at home, I miss you, I love you, and know you are in my thoughts. You have played a huge role in my being here. I could not do this without your love and support. WIthout you I am nothing.
God Bless
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