A scene from our hotel: As I am sitting here typing this, our armed guard is lounging in an Adirondack rocking chair, watching one of the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies dubbed in Spanish of course, and he has just fallen fast asleep!

We woke up this morning to the sound of roosters crowing. Many times... Finally, it became time to get up with the rooster instead of roll back over for more sleep. I decided the first night that I would rather go to sleep early and get up closer to the sunrise so I could take advantage of being in Honduras. This morning when we got up was when Sam and I set out to find more answers about the Internet Cafe. All we knew at this point was that it was closed last night when we were looking for it. So, Sam and I took off up the street this morning at a little after 7. As we walked we got to watch the town San Juan Pueblo coming to life. People were walking, riding bikes, motorcycles and cars, and catching the bus for the morning commute to work in the larger metropolitan areas. The shops and businesses of San Juan Pueblo were lifting their security shutters and setting out their wears for another day of business. We also saw a pack of dogs surrounding the open air carniceria, drooling over the days fresh meat for sale.

We stopped three different times to ask about the Cafe de Internet, just to make sure we were getting the same information, and to practice muddling through our forgotten Spanish (Sam & I both took Spanish before, but have not used it in a long time) without a large audience. We found out it did not open until nueve, and no one knew exactly when it closed. So, we strolled back to the hotel and waited for breakfast.

Breakfast and dinner are here at the hotel. We ate wonderful fruit and pancakes, more fruit and good strong cafe this morning and then we went to visit David and Dialas, the missionaries here who Jewell has gone to work with in years past. We saw their orphanage and church, and then we split into three groups. Nancy and Cappuccino (our translator and driver) went to make some contacts for a medical trip she will be bringing nursing students on this coming May. Sam, Paula, Christina, Elizabeth, Lula, and Cat went to David and Dialas's school to clean and help them prepare for the spring semester (they are still on winter break, as we are). David took Donette, Scott and me to visit Emvacadero. We got most of the way there to find that the river we were supposed to be able to drive through was impassible by our van, so we walked about a mile into the village - and we will be doing this every morning for our commute. Apparently when the grande truck that recently delivered our materials took quite a toll on the road to Emvacadero.

We were greeted by the leaders of the community and they showed us latrines that they have been working on themselves, a "septic system" they have arranged, and one of the 7 wells from which they get their water. All of this is in very close proximity, which of course is not safe. Donette worked out with them which houses we are going to build the latrines at, and arranged with one of the women about making lunch for us tomorrow, and then we made the hike back to the van.

After lunch we met back up with the other groups and helped them finish cleaning up at the school. Sam played a rousing game of futbol with a mob of boys, and though he's not sure how accurate and reliable the boys score keeping was he thinks that his team ended up losing by one.

After this, we headed back to San Juan Pueblo, finally visited the Cafe Internet, walked the long trek back to the hotel and had dinner. Then we had reflection and now we are all winding down in our own way. I am unwinding by watching our guard! And soon I am heading to bed. Buenas Noches.