No CDL? No problem!

I´m still alive and well down in San Pedro Sula.... I can´t believe that my trip is going this fast. Last Thursday we went to pick up the Mercy Ships team, and Mauricio pulled the bus over to the side of the road and asked if I wanted to drive. At first I said no, but then I thought "why not?" So I got to drive a big yellow school bus on a dirt road for about 20 minutes. There weren´t many cars around, and I only passed 3 people, but it was still a fun experience. All the Hondurans were honking and laughing and waving when they saw a little gringa at the wheel. Jimmy and David were jealous of my bus driving skills, and Mauricio has a picture to prove that it actually happened. I´m hoping he´ll upload it onto the computer so I can show everyone. Jeremiah laughed at me as I pulled the bus into the field next to the Mercy Ships clinic. Although I never drove on a big open road, and wasn´t ever going over 30 miles an hour, driving the bus was really fun.

Friday was the last day for the Mercy Ships team, and we headed to some waterfalls about an hour away. They were huge, and some of us got to go down and through/behind the falls. I figured we´d get a little wet, and it would be challenging at times, but I had no idea what we were in for. At times as we made our way to the falls we were in water upto our necks, and couldn´t see anything or hear anything. It had rained the night before, so the current was swift, and the water was high. I was holding Brittney´s hand the whole time, (a girl on the Mercy Ships team who goes to Gordon College), and could hear her shout out "grab the rock" or "watch out for a big rick" and things like that occasionally. All the waterfalls I´ve ever seen have been in PA, and are so small in comparison, and I was surprised at the power of the falls when we were hiking/swimming around them. We finally made it under one of the falls and out of the water for a bit, and we were all amazed and a little bit shocked at what we had just done. A very intense experience, and my pictures probably wont do it justice. We explored a cave, and then trudged/swam back the way we came, more confident in our ability to actually succeed in making it back to the path. I lost my hat at somepoint... I thought the guide grabbed it off of my head, but when I asked him about it he started to laugh and said "that was the waterfalls, Sara. Not me." Friday night was spent in the Erazos usual way of Shabbot, and then David, Keren, and Oscar and I went out to talk. I was tired from hiking and exploring waterfalls all day.

On Saturday we went to La Entrada to Mauricio´s camp for a revival with a local church. Mauricio had told me that we weren´t going to sleep, so I took him literally, and didn´t pack anything. When I got there I quickly realized that, although we´d stay up late singing and whatnot, there would be time to sleep and even shower... if only I had brought things to do so. Thankfully Karina is almost my size and I squeezed into some of her pants and borrowed a shirt. We went on a hike on Saturday when we arrived, and about 10 minutes into it it started raining, thundering, and lightening... everyone got soaked, and we hiked the last 20 minutes in the rain. I was really frustrated (and soaked) when I got back to the camp, and that´s when Karina stepped in with her extra clothes. On Saturday night during the "seminars" I was cold for the first time in my trip! I´m not really sure what the pastor was talking about on Saturday night or Sunday morning, but I enjoyed the singing, and the team building exercises that we did. I loved getting out of SPS, too.

Keren turned 19 yesterday, and we celebrated last night with chinese food, 25 of her friends, and kareoke. I didn´t know that kareoke could be so much fun for 2 straight hours. I sang some Britney Spears and Spice Girls with Keren and her cousin Melissa. Oscar did some Spanish rap that sounded cool, although I have no idea what he was saying... and one of Keren´s friends could belly dance.

Tomorrow I go to Tegucigalpa to visit Rick and Kim until Saturday, and I am so excited for something new and different. I will try and post a blog while I´m there.