i can´t live if livin is without you

so, the last few days have been full of bus rides, taxi rides, mini bus rides, and the madness won´t stop til we´re in our communities. when we left copan, i had a mini heart attack. i had to get mini bypass surgery and i´m only 23.

we bought a ticket to go to guate city for only $10US on minibus. we got 12 km out of copan, where you have to cross back into guate, and i realized that like the supreme rabbitest person in the world, i left my special wallet purse hidden safely under the mattress at the hostel we had been staying at. i was a case, but shed not a tear. when i told the driver i had forgotten it, he told me to hide in the back of the van. this would have elicited a chuckle in a different time-space continuum, and now it does, but at the time, i was just like, not a chance, sir. he talked to the other driver, and with the honduran friendliness, he drove me back the mountainous way and i ran to get the purse, and we drove back. everyone else was done checking out of honduras and into guate, so it was just a minute till we were on the minivan, humming along. i was still a case though.

what saved me were those cool sweet eighties, you know, like phil collins, michael bolton, richard marx, etc. so now i come to you with open arms hoping you´ll say believe what i say . . . so i dont know the words well. but the koren guy knew all the words.

after getting lost in the taxi in guate city, we made it to dos lunas, picked up our crap, left the next day for xela, aka quetzaltenango. the whole bus ride, i felt like crizzle, but i kept telling myself i wasnt sick, and i chewed on life saving orbitz gum. we got stopped like 5 times for construction, i thought i was going to die. amy said i slept through the part where all the men had to leave the bus. that´s ok with me.

so we are here in xela now and we will be leaving on saturday morning to get closer to our community. i am so excited. as i was near puking on the bus, i saw a woman with a baby nestled on her back with a colorful shawl, and i got so excited. if we just had an adventure, the next three months are going to be an uber adventure.

kinkotik. ba.