Welcome to Honduras

Well, I have now been in Honduras for two weeks now. The other ACU students from the International Agriculture course left last Saturday. I stayed with Chad and Shelly Hedgepath during the weekend and then we went to Tegus to get the other interns on Monday. It was fun to meet all of them. There are eight of us right now, but soon another girl will join us. We also met a highschool senior named Todd. He is only staying in Honduras for two weeks as a senior project. He is very cool. It was late when we finally got into Choluteca on Monday night. We went to the grocery store and then had Pizza for dinner. We made it to the intern house at Las Palmas very late at night.

The next morning, we had free to get to know one another, explore our new home and hang out around the ranch. The research legumes that my group had planted with me last week had begun growing. At 11am all the interns went up to the Posada to eat lunch and have orientation. The food was wonderful and the orientation allowed everyone to express his or her objectives and expectations for this summer. Afterward, we went down to San Marcos to learn about the town and its layout. We had some difficultites with our cell phones, but hopefully they should be in working order soon. Shelly and Meredith made us spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner. It was so good.

Wednesday we went down to Choluteca to see the Mission Lazarus office. We went down to the medical clinic at Las Pitas. I will hopefully be spending some time down there interviewing farmers about local farming practices. We returned to Choluteca for lunch. I had the most amazing taco ever!!! Then we visited one of the Mission Lazarus schools near the ocean. Then we hung out at the office for awhile. I was able to catch up on email, which was nice. We returned to the ranch and ate dinner.

Today, we went to the daily ranch devotional and got to see aspects of the ranch. Then we traveled to the other Mission Lazarus schools. I am very pleased that I will be able to help in the schools.

Tomorrow is my first ranch day. I am hopeful that I will be able to subdivide my legume research plots with the help of other interns. I can not wait to start working on the ranch and helping in the schools. Also, tomorrow night we are going to have a movie night with some of the children in the refuge. It should be lots of fun. I pray that God will teach me a lot this summer and that he will be glorified.