So things have been rather crazy here. My town has been having a ton of peace festivals which are super interesting, especially when the entire crowd chants “Jesus Cristo” and the Catholic youth group performs plays where the devil tries to corrupt a young boy and Jesus saves him. I love it! A young girl in Kevin’s town was struck by lightening and killed yesterday so that is very sad. I guess she was taking the clothes off the clothesline because it was starting to rain and lightening struck her. Kevin was outside when it happened and is pretty sure that he saw the lightening strike that killed her. I think that she was related to his host family but he did not know her. Now the town is in mourning for 9 days and it is an extremely sad situation. My group had our cultural day yesterday and we got to watch folkloric dancers and eat lots of good Honduran food. We also imparted some of our culture by teaching them games like red light green light, duck duck goose, three legged races, and making rice krispie treats. It was a hit! I am in Tegucigalpa again because I had to get my last rabies shot and another girl had to go to the doctor. We are bringing back a speaker for our AIDS panel tomorrow so we get to spend the night here! All of the volunteers 2 groups ahead of us are leaving Saturday and they are all here doing paperwork and going to the doctor. It is nice to be able to talk to them because we are replacing a lot of them and they give good advice. Tomorrow we all have to give charlas (lectures) on HIV/AIDS for 4 hours to the local high schools. I am missing out on all the preparation but will be back in time to give the charla. That should be interesting. So things are going well and we only have a few days until we are back together in Zarabanda and then we get to visit our site!
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