I´m here!

I arrived late last night and waited in the San Pedro Sula airport for Cosmo to pick me up. I was slightly amazed I made it at all because I thought I was going to miss my connecting flight for about an hour. I guess that´s what happens when the pilot doesn´t speak English very well and doesn´t think that anyone will notice when he says the wrong ¨local time.¨ Anyway, that´s besides the point.

When Cosmo and Co. arrived, they made me go back through the exit so that I could exit again...this time to a screaming crowd of college kids. I felt like a celebrity. There were cameras going off and high pitched shrieking and general confusion.

It feels good to be back in Honduras.

We´re staying at a retreat center about 10 minutes from the center of the city. I was at Copprome briefly this morning but all the kids were in class. Instead, we went to another village of displaced people. There are 51 families in this community. Their homes were bulldozed by the government as part of an USAID water oxidization plan. Of course nothing has come from this yet.

The children are all malnourished and zombie like. Their hair and eyes are light because their bodies aren´t producing the nutrients to provide color. They have no energy to run around and play. There isn´t much we can do to help at this point. We simply bought several hundred pounds of rice and beans, and some fresh water. A little over $200 worth. It will feed the community for 3, maybe 4, days.

We are now headed back to Copprome and then Siete de Abril. We´ve been up since 630am. The sun is intense and Gaku has been sick from the heat. The rest of us, however, are in good spirits and excited to tackle whatever we can.

I wish that all of you could be here to experience this with me...