So, I arrived safely in Honduras and a few eventful things have happened so far. Some embarrassing, some exciting, some challenging, but mostly everything just seems so different and I find myself trying to adjust most of the time.
On my trip to Honduras on the 2nd of August I had a 13 layover in New York and arranged to meet a friend who lives there for dinner. It is not possible to leave any baggage at the airport for security reasons, so I had to take it all with me to Manhattan from the airport. On the way out I needed something from my little hand luggage suitcase and squatted down, when, of course, I lost my balance and fell backwards with my heavy backpack (about 25 kilos). So there I lay at the airport arrivals area on my back and unable to get up, I felt like a turtle. A few people ran towards me to help me, but I managed to get up myself by un-strapping the backpack. It must have looked hilarious!
It felt strange to be in New York, but it felt even stranger to be in Honduras after being in New York. My friend who lives in New York took me to a nice place along a park by the water for dinner and then we walked around her neighbourhood for a bit before I was almost too tired to keep my eyes open and she made me go to bed for 2 hours before leaving for the airport again.
When I arrived in Honduras everything was so, so different. It is a poor country and things look run down of course. It is also a tropical country and so everything seems to be taken over by nature because everything is so lush. On my bus ride to La Ceiba (where I am staying now) from the airport it started raining. When it rains here, it rains a lot but it is warm at the same time. Turns out I arrived at the beginning of the rainy season and there is a lot more rain to come. So far I like it, but some people have mentioned that in the rainy season it rains almost non-stop and the road to Las Mangas, where Sandra is staying sometimes gets completely inaccessible because of the rain. The road is repaired every year… before Easter.
I love being in a warm country, though, and what I love about the rain is that it doesn’t get cold when it rains but feels fresh. It will cool down (18-20 C°) in the months of October and November, but for now it will stay nice and hot.
That’s it for this week! I have added a picture I took in New York and my first picture taken on Honduran ground in the Quenca valley.
Besitos,
Chiara