Exciting Things

January 7, 2010

I’ve seem to have hit a lazy streak where it’s easier to just pick out some photos and write captions than to actually write complete thoughts.

I’ve realized that once I hit 3 consecutive months in one place I lose my ability to see and write about the exciting and different. I noticed it in Bolivia and I’m noticing it again here in Honduras. Things got exciting once I moved from training to my site but now they are slowing down again.

It’s not like exciting and interesting things don’t happen. It was just yesterday that I was crammed in a room with 30 other Hondurans standing over a dead un-embalmed body that had been steaming under the sun for over 12 hours. Or a week ago when I saw Harry Potter 7 in the movie theatre in Teguz. Sounds average, but for me it is a super exciting event. Or how about the sheep we killed for Christmas or the machete fight outside the Christmas Eve Catholic Church service that my uncle broke up (using my machete none-the-less!). Then there is the night I spent in the Cholu hospital, the endangered owl that my host brother caught and put in a cage, and the exciting fact that our one dirt road through town (which is more like a rocky slope punctuated by washed out bridges) is getting fixed!

Then there are all the completely normal things that are exciting all by themselves. Like the fact that itty-bitty mangos are starting to grow on the trees or the new chicken coup my host mom is building out back. Not to mention birthdays that are celebrated by playing loud music early in the morning and the cows that I still love to milk every morning. And how about the excitement of having all of the extended family back in town to celebrate the holidays and the fact that my Spanish is slowly getting better.

Good things are happening. I just can’t articulate them.