Oscar Weekend

Monday March 8th 2010 7:45pm

Saturday

In order to prepare myself for my journey back home, I decided it was a good idea to have some Skyline Chili this weekend, so on Saturday afternoon, I headed up to the grocery store at Plaza and purchased all of the ingredients needed to make the delicious Cincinnati style chili.

The simmering pot of chili filled my apartment with aromas that reminded me of home, and I was happy to eat some of my attempt at Skyline. My cooking was, of course, not even close to the original, but still considerably better than my last batch. It felt good to eat chili again. I also had some ice cream as I popped in a disc of Pushing Daisies and watched a few episodes before falling asleep.


Sunday

With worship on my mind, I perused the interweb for the Tylersville Road Christian Church website on Sunday morning. When I found it, much to my delight, there were songs, sciptures, and sermons online for me to listen to. I know that I still miss out on the element of fellowship in a church service, but the connection that I felt to my church family brought me warmth on a Sunday morning in Tegucigalpa.

In the afternoon, I took a walk to the bumper boat mall and bought some pop, some chips, and a few other snack food items for indulgence during the Oscars.

I tried reading on my balcony for a while, but it quickly became too hot to comfortably sit outside, and I ended up moving inside, where thanks to my new computer, I was able to play some tunes while reading.

That evening, I made some spaghetti for Skyline leftovers, and enjoyed some delicious dinner and subsequent snacks while watching the Oscars. I thoroughly enjoyed Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, and thought Tina Fey's presentation was really good too. I hadn't seen enough of the movies that were nominated to really give my opinion, but I am now very intruiged by The Hurt Locker. I also, have never seen The Blindside, because it wasn't in theaters when I was home, and never made the jump to Honduras. I really liked Up in the Air, but without seeing most of the other movies that it was up against, I don't feel informed enough to give my opinion.


Monday

This morning, I was able to sleep in for a while before heading up to the roof to do a few exercises. In the afternoon, I headed up to Plaza, and then just kind of walked down the street a ways until I got bored with walking, and headed back to my apartment. It was nice to just kind of walk around and explore for a while.

I spent most of the afternoon reading, and have really enjoyed Catch-22. Its good that I am going home soon, because I've almost finished with all of the books that I had brought back with me from Christmas break.

This evening, I made some dinner and watched some TV for a while, before remembering that I hadn't written in a while, and also remembering that I was trying to not watch so much TV.

We have a group coming in this Saturday, and I'll be with them up until I fly back into the States. It is infinitely easier not to watch TV when there are groups here. It will be my first medical brigade, so I'll probably spend some time this week trying to brush up on my medical Spanish...of which I know none. When I work as a translator for these doctors, I can't exactly paraphrase, sum up, or guess, which are three of my favorite translating techniques. Wish me luck.