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It has been a hectic week what with starting work and all. I have been absolutely wiped out at the end of each day. There are just so many new things to learn--it's a completely different world inside a US government agency. But all in all, it's working out well and I've already learned a lot. I'm learning not only about the US government and foreign policy, but specifically about Honduras and what goes on within the country. So it's exciting, but very tiring. It's funny b/c I'm not being paid a single
dollar for my work, yet I find myself working 9-10 hours/day. Strange how that works :) On Monday night my house mom and I went to a concert put on by the US Embassy. It was this cute little theatre and in the midst of the concert, bats started flying around over the stage! I couldn't pay attention to the music b/c I was laughing hysterically at the bats. Wednesday night I had dinner at my boss' house with his family and the other intern, Rennee, who is leaving in a week. It's really great to see up close and personal the families that live inside the world of the Foreign Service. It's helping me to paint a personal picture of what life is like when you move around the world every 2-3 years.
Last night I had dinner with the new incoming Naval Commander who is working with the Honduran military on their national military operations within Honduras. I felt like a chump b/c we went to Tony Roma's! But sometimes it's nice to go somewhere you know. The crappy thing about Honduras is their lack of good beer. Imperial is the most common beer and it tastes like water. There is no decent wine to be had anywhere. The two bottles of Zinfandel that I brought were snatched up immediately by my boss (well, I took them to his house for the dinner and he opened both so he could keep the second-I'm sure)--Thanks Jay, scored major kudos with the boss, though!
Tomorrow I am waking up bright and early to go with some people to Comayuaga to volunteer at a food sorting venue. Then we're having lunch a few miles away at the only active US Military base in Honduras: Soto-Cono I believe is what it's called. Then tomorrow night Renee and I are probably going to the Marine house for a BBQ/party...but it depends if we get back in time. One cool thing about Honduras is all of the holidays they have! I haven't counted, but they get tons of days off as they celebrate every important general and religious figure around. So we get the entire Holy Week off which runs April 14-easter Sunday. I've been invited by some MIL (military) guys to travel to various vacation spots around Honduras during Semana Santa (holy week) and everything is already paid for...so I'm extremely excited for that. But I'll give you all the lowdown on that once it happens.
Alright, I'm out of here. But first, a few little tidbits about life. Every morning I have to check my shower for scorpions before getting in...found my first one yesterday. I consistantly wake up sick every morning around 5 am--it's a great alarm clock--but I think I contracted Montezuma's revenge, or some small form of it. I think that the culprit was an apple--we have to bleach our vegetables and fruits here before we eat them and I failed to do this. Everyday at work I go through the Honduran newspapers for relevant articles. They publish the goriest pictures I have ever seen-stuff that would never be allowed in the US. Today there was a picture of a decapitated and partially dismembered woman lying in a field. This is standard news everyday here...and the papers have no qualms about blurring or editing photos. They show it how it really is.
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