The adventure continues...A-CHOO!!!

How has it already been 4 days since my last blog post?? I keep thinking that somehow I'll have more time to blog but I never know where that time goes.

Well anyway, I promise that this blog entry will be pretty short...1) Looking back I can't even believe how long my last entry was and I promise I won't make you read that much all at once again and 2) I have officially come down with a horrible cold and the mixture of heavy doses of cold medicine mixed with a weekend of doing more than I should have doesn't exactly make a brilliant writer...

But I do want to talk a little about the adventures of living in my house (there have been quite a few adventures lately!) and a few fun things I managed to do this weekend despite going through 2 entire rolls of toilet paper to blow my nose in the process.

Ok...so we are in rainy season here in Honduras and the Honduran rainy season does not f*ck around people. Every day for the last week at around 5ish, it starts monsooning. Within about an hour, the streets have turned into rivers! It's nuts.

For any of you out there who have Facebook, check out this video that another volunteer took just outside my house:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61601190&ref=ts#/video/video.php?v=506487403637

So I guess it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that there are a few problems that come with the rain...namely leaks in my room, a VERY smelly bathroom due to backed up sewage, lots of wet clothing, power outages and water outages...fun stuff...

On top of some leaky roofs in my room, my room has made quite a nice little shelter for a few "creatures"! The other night, I came back to my room (luckily with two other volunteers) and waiting for me in my room was a big tree frog on my laundry bag and the biggest spider I have ever seen (I'm telling you, this picture doesn't do it any justice whatsoever.
The worst part? So after my saving grace and fellow volunteer took my flip flop and killed the spider, it was just sitting on the floor (trust me...it was dead...many legs were no longer attached...). Then we all hung out for a while to watch a movie, etc. Afterwards, we came back to take a couple more pictures of the dead spider and it was GONE!

Yep...you got it. That means that I am probably still currently living with an even larger creature that ate it! Seriously...it's a good thing these kids are damn cute or I would seriously wonder what I was doing here sometimes...

Anyway, this weekend I had a fun visitor from my days in Antigua. Alison (you loyal blog followers may remember her as the girl I shared the "matrimonial bed" with) came up for a weekend of fun in Copan. So, despite the fact that I came down with the plague, we still managed to have some fun.

Friday night was fourth of July and I happened to mention to my house mom in the morning that I usually like to wear red, white and blue on the 4th but didn't have anything red to wear. Anyway, later that evening before we went out to dinner, she gave me a present...a bright red tank top that said "Copan, Honduras" across it. It was so hilarious and ironic that I had to wear it out.

So out we went to the only "american-ish" place in town for beer and burgers and Alison, being English, was forced to drink an American beer and eat a burger with us Yankees. So after trying for Miller or Bud with no success, we went with the only American option they had...Old Milwaukee! It was pretty hilarious...

After dinner, we had a sweet tooth but no place was open for dessert. So what did we do? Raid the convenience store of course and buy every American candy bar we could find! It was awesome...


Saturday morning we headed to the bird park and it was really fun...complete with crazy plants, insane bugs and of course, the classic "parrot on your head" picture...
We were all set to go out on Saturday night when we remembered that we are in the rainy season here in Honduras. Have I said that it rains like CRAZY here? Anyway, rather than go out, Alison and I turned my little house into a beauty salon for the night...ok, a little background...

So before I left for my 6 month adventure I told my hair guy that I had to go back to my natural color so I wouldn't have to worry about dying it out here. Basically, he refused. But he sent me fully equipped with his own hair dye, bottles, brushes and potions for me to dye my hair myself!

Now I have many talents but I knew that dying my hair would not be one of them so while Alison was here, I hired her on as my temporary "color-specialist" and it turned out pretty darn good! Here are some pictures of the process...(I actually don't have any "after" shots because my hair was wet...but you will see them....I promise my hair is not green....)
Sunday morning we went out on the horses (again) and I think I almost scared them all away with the amount of sneezing that was going on. Needless to say, after Alison loaded on the shuttle back to Antigua, it was straight to bed for me and I seriously haven't moved much since!

I'm hoping to kick this cold in the tush before long and start discovering more crazy adventures here...so long as they don't include giant insects.

xoxo,
Debra

P.S...Keep the guesses from the last entry coming! I will reveal the winner later this week...