HAPPY FATHER´S DAY!!! I just wanted to take a moment to say how lucky I am to have my father and grandfather. You two have been so supportive of me and all my crazy endeavors, and thank you for always having confidence in me and giving me so much love.
Would anyone else like to comment on how grateful they are for their fathers?
Last night, we went to a Despidida, which is a goodbye party. There was a dentist in town volunteering at a dental clinic and he was leaving. I hadn´t met him yet but we still got invited to the dinner and it was very nice. I had a chocolate (basically melted chocolate in a glass-delicious) and a tostada and an emparrillasa or something like that. It was kinda like an enchilada but stuffed with ham and crumbled chicken. They also had a gorgeous fruit cake, that was so scrumptious and succulent. Usually cakes here are dry but this one was not. Anyways, before anyone ate, there were a few speeches to Shane the dentist about how grateful everyone was for their service. It was very nice. Then the organizer of the group said that we were also there to celebrate something else. Nobody really knew what to expect. Then, almost everyone at the table (about 8 people) went around and talked about Father´s Day since June 17th is always Father´s Day here. They recognized that barely anyone at the table was a Father, but they all talked about how grateful they are for their fathers-haha. It was very nice, and what I said above about my dad and grandpa is very true, but people down here are so funny about their toasts. Everyone repeats themselves and one another, and its really great to recognize how much our fathers mean to us, but it could be done in fewer sentences, haha. It´s kind of like how they pray down here before meals. I think it is important to be greatful for all of your blessings, but when you sit down for a meal I don´t think it is necessary to recognize all of them and pray for every person that needs prayers. Haha, I just get a kick out of how many words people use here to express something that doesn´t need to be as complex.
That was my observation for the day...
Anyways, I had a really great week since returning from Xela. I started to feel better Sunday night, and now I feel 143% like myself, even better than I have felt in a while. My voice is back and I just feel really good. ¡Gracias a Dios! We had hard days of work this week, accomplishing a lot with the water deposits. We have completed 5 and are half way done with a 6th, and need to finish 10 in total. So, hopefully in the next week (probably 2) we will have completed that project and moved onto our water filter projects. I love the local men we work with (they help AMMID) and they LOVE saying my name. Literally, every time they say something to me, they either start or end the sentence with LOWRA. And sometimes they just say LOWRA LOWRA LOWRA. Its so funny and the guys have even picked up on how frequently it happens. I don´t mind it because I love how native speakers say my name!
Franz met with a potter for our colloidal silver filters and she seems very promising. That will be a project that will advance slower, but they need to take their time with it so that no more pots are broken. Once the deposit project is done, I think we will also help AMMID with the other water filter project (this involves coal, etc, to filter out the water-a different technique than the colloidal silver project because this water will be filtered so that it can be reused, ie. if the water is soapy and used to clean dishes, it will then be sent through the filters and used to water plants or something of that sort).
The weather in Comitancillo has been VERY cold and part of this is because we have been working at higher altitudes and they suspect that we might be feeling the effects of another tropical storm-its rained sorta a lot. Yesterday, we were the coldest, but we were literally working IN A CLOUD, so it was fascinating and we avoided the rain since we were essentially above the rain.
Another cool thing, last night some of the gringos and I had a movie night. We had a lot of fun and hopefully we do it again! We watched Shutter Island. That´s right people, I watched a scary movie! I did pretty well with it although I kinda had weird dreams last night. Its more of the creepy mess-with-your-head movie than the jump out scary movie, but don´t worry I still screamed (only a little though) at jump out parts.
On our agenda for this weekend: Tonight I am helping my host mother cook. Yay, I´m excited and its cool that she asked me to help since I have helped before and she knows I like to cook. We are making lunch for tomorrow. Tomorrow we are going to Xocomil, which is a water park in Guatemala. We are taking our host family and some of the gringo volunteers are coming, too. I am so excited and am hopeful that the weather warms up for us. Kevin took our family last year when he was here, and he said they had a blast, so I just can´t wait to go tomorrow and spend time with them. Giorgina has been giddy about it all week! Finally, we will probably stay the night in Xela tomorrow night. The water park is close to Xela and so it would be a lot of traveling in one day, and this way we can do laundry and get more cash (Comitancillo doesn´t have an ATM where you can use foreign ATM cards)and come back sometime Sunday.
¡Gracias por leer este blog!
Bad call refs, USA should have won,
Lowra
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