Back in the Office

Tuesday February 23rd 2010

Grocery shopping yesterday was a lot of fun. I had forgotten that I hadn't shaved in the whole week that I was with the group, and had forgotten that I was too lazy to shave once I had gotten back to my appartment. For those of you who are unaware, my facial hair grows only in certain patches and bunches around my face and neck area. It doesn't look good. Not even close.

The only reason why I noticed yesterday was because of how hot it was. It was in the mid to upper 80's here, and lots of patchy ugly looking beard-hair combined with a sweaty white male in this city is quite the sight to see. I felt bad for the other people in the store who were clearly trying not to look at me. Mothers averted their children's eyes and scolded them for staring. I couldn't help laughing at myself when I saw myself in the reflection of a glass door.

At least the shopping was productive, and I was able to eat a nice hearty meal of some pasta chicken recipe from a cookbook that Uncle Russ had gotten me for Christmas. Don't worry, I shaved long before I made the meal.

Today, I headed to work with Freddy and caught him up on the work that the group had accomplished out in Talanga. He invited me on a spring break trip with him and some of his friends to La Ceiba. The whole city here shuts down for all of Holy Week, and most of the residents take off for the beaches in the north. I let him know that as long as I wasn't going to be back in the US fooling around with GM stuff that I would love to go.

Betza and Edgardo have Monday's off in the office, and Marisela always comes in late, so for the first two hours or so, Alfreddy and I had the office to ourselves. Alfreddy had a meeting, and left, which gave me the liberty to play whatever kind of music that I wanted. I took full advantage of that liberty, and played all sorts of crazy music from the States that no one here has ever even heard of. Marisela got in around 11:30, and I turned my music down. Around noon, however, she started sobbing uncontrollably and just left to go back home. I tried to call her a little while later, but she didn't answer. Sometimes she cries when groups cancel. I hope that everything is okay with her.

The rest of the afternoon, I've spent working on the CCD website, and downloading Microsoft Office to this computer. Its nice to finally be able to read the documents that people are sending me.