I am so bad at math...am I really Chinese?

Yesterday we went to the best university in the country, UNITEC. It´s the ¨rich person¨ school, but Maria (she used to live at Copprome) has a scholarship to go there so we got to tag along. It felt like high school again. We got up at 5am and rode a yellow bus to San Pedro Sula (about an hour). Some classes start at 7am so everyone has to ride the buses early and then just hang out until their classes start. We sat in the cafeteria and read the newspaper. Ultraviolet was on TV but I had no clue what was happening in the plot so I didn´t watch it.

At 8am, all the computer labs open. Initially, I was really excited about free, unfettered access to internet. Unfortunately, the entire school runs on wireless ONLY so the access was SOOOOOO slow. Slower than dial-up. It was such a tease. I waited for 15 or 20 minutes for my Gmail page to load. Anyway, after that, we went to class with Maria. It was Introduction to Algebra and I realized that I do not remember ANYTHING about math. I was solving for x, but then halfway through, someone said we were supposed to be solving for A and B by flipping the fraction and multiplying. A and B? What?! I don´t remember ever doing this. We must have learned something different when I was in school...

Today Cos and I accompanied one of the Copprome girls, Julissa, to the medical clinic. She had to remove her cast so we went to watch and hold her hand while they pulled a huge nail out of her foot. It looked pretty painful, but it was over in a flash. Cos and I then proceeded to walk around town looking for a bathing suit to buy. We didn´t find any, but we bought some pound cake and that seemed just as fulfilling.

We went to Super Jugo...our favorite smoothie store...and enjoyed the AC. Fruit here is so flavorful and delicious! US produce is really pretty...but it doesn´t taste anywhere near as good as everything here. We struck up conversation with the man sitting next to us (Cosmo gave him some of our poundcake) and he bought our smoothies! He had seen SHH on TV (there was an interview a couple weeks ago), so he knew what we were doing. That was pretty cool.

We have a meeting today with our lawyer and the ¨president¨ of Siete de Abril. We´re trying to figure out the technicalities of the land issues so hopefully this will help us make some good decisions about our next steps. Tomorrow, we´re off to La Moskitia so I will be out of touch until Saturday at the earliest. Pray for safety and health...