So STEP Honduras 2011/2012 team has officially been in Tegucigalpa, Honduras for a little over a week. We are pretty well settled into our family's, and adjusting to the schedule. Each of us seem to really enjoy our host families! Yolanda lives with an older couple that are very sweet and hospitable, and she gets to play with all of the grandchildren (and there are alot!) Diagonally across from Yolanda is Janelle and her host family. Janelle lives with an older couple as well, and the host mom most very is spunky! haha! In her house there is always family coming over and hanging out. She hasn't quite figured out who is related to who and the names of all the grand children but I'm sure as time goes on she will learn them. She has a parrot that sits right outside of her door who gets all the food from meals that Janelle doesn't eat hahah so the bird, I am sure, is appreciating Janelle's presence at the house.
I (Holly) live around the corner with a young couple who have 3 children who are 10, 4, and 2. I must say they are sooo adorable! I have come to really love my host family already. My host mom is just the sweetest lady and she makes me feel at home. She often talks about Emily who was in the STEP program last year and lived with her, I enjoy hearing about her experience here. I love to play with the kids...and they seem to be accustomed to me already :) My host family is actually related to Janelle's host family, so me and Janelle are pretty familiar with each others families.
Jesse lives right beside me with an awesome God-Loving family. He lives with an older lady who's husband recently passed, she has quite the personality! She loves praying with us as a team, and I believe she enjoys praying with Jesse at meal times. She loves reading her bible as well! Jesse also lives with her children who are all in their twenties. Jesse has developed already a close friendship with her only son, he is really cool! We went to the movies with Jesse's host brother and his fiancee the other day. His fiancee and him both speak English so it was such a nice outlet from having to comprehend Spanish and or speaking it for a few hours.
Spanish classes have started and the classroom learning has begun! Haha, I will be honest, I have learned more Spanish in the past week then I ever did in my 2 years of Spanish in the States. We are all working together to learn the language and encourage each other. Keep us all in prayer for language studies. We have such a passion to reach out to the people here including our families that we live with so we are trying our very hardest to learn as much Spanish as we can.
So far, we are really enjoying Honduras and it's people! We hope to continue to express our experiences with all of our friends and families. It is truly an amazing experience! Thank You for the prayers and support!
