Tales from Jayacayan... an Intern's Perspective

While the rest of the interns visited the ruins in Copan, Chelsea, Logan, and I got the opportunity to “go local” in Namisigüe.  We stayed with this sweet family (Hector, Hellen, Yeremi, Amanda, and Elton). Hellen cooked us beans, scrambled eggs, corn tortillas, and mantequilla that literally means butter, but it was more like sour cream. Their house was about the size of my room back home, so Logan, Chelsea, and I slept in the living room/kitchen/dining room in hammocks (which was needless to say, a very humbling experience) while Hellen, Hector, Amanda, and Elton slept in their double bed, and Yeremi slept in a hammock. This morning we woke up at 5am and had arroz con leche (warm unpasteurized milk from the cow, rice and cinnamon). This was actually very sweet and tasty, but very filling! We went to church with the family this morning and met back up with one of the groups that is here this week. 
I experienced “going local” for the first time last summer and it literally changed the way that I think about the way i live my life. I take so many of the daily things for granted.. Even something as simple as having a nice bed to sleep in at night, a roof over your head, a bathroom in the next room over so that you don’t have to wake up the entire house to go to the bathroom (this may or may not have happened..). God continues to show me things through the hospitality and the giving hearts of the Hondurans.. and oh, how much more i have to learn!
-Mary Leigh