Semi Weekly Update

Tuesday May 4th 2010 4:00pm

Since last Saturday, I found out that I was accepted to Union Theological Seminary for fall of 2010. It was another piece of my life that has fallen into place and it was certainly reassuring to know that I have a plan for this fall.

The rest of the week did not go so well. Monday one of our guards at the office passed away. He was found in our bathroom shot in the head. The original police reports said that it was a suicide, but a subswequent report said that it could not have been suicide, which heavily implicated one of our other guards in a possible murder.

I went in last Tuesday, wehre I faced a melancholic scene of sad faces, and the weight of what had just happened. I asked Marisela how it was that police reports could change with such speed and ease, and she just rubbed her thumb against her fingers, giving the the sign for "money money money."

I knew Juan fairly well. It was not uncommon for us to talk briefly in the mornings when I came in, especially on Saturdays when I had more spare time at the seminary.

We didn't work for the rest of the week because Noemi told us that we didn't have any internet. Also for the rest of the week, it rained, it poured, it stormed, and I was stuck indoors from Wednesday through Sunday.

On Saturday, I awoke to the sound of gunshots on the street and helicopters whirring above my aparment. There was a parade/protest happening outside in the rain, and the gunshots were purely out of excitement. They sure did make me jump right out of bed.

Sunday, there was enough of a break in the rain that I went up to Plaza and was able to watch Iron Man 2. To my knowledge, the movie isn't even out in the US yet, which surprised me because we are normally quite behind the movie timelines here in Honduras.

Monday I was told we were going back to the office, but late on on Sunday night, I got a phone call saying that the office was still closed. In the week that I spent out of the office, I was able to finish two books.

Today was the first time I went to the office since last TUesday, and sure enough we still did not have working internet. Our phones were cut too. Apparently, we are a bit behind in some of our payments.

Speaking of payments, I just paid my last month's rent here, and am looking forward to my return flight on May 28th!