Things I like here

We've been in Honduras for three months. I keep finding things that make me smile and remind me how I like living in another country. In random order, here are some of those things:

A rainbow after the rain

• Fresh bananas
• Learning another language
• Palm trees
• Learning to drive differently, more attentively, slower yet learning the traffic patterns-thankfully have not had an accident
• Kids talking about their days and their thoughts as we drive to and from school 
• Seeing bumper to bumper traffic on top of the bridge and a herd of cattle on the underpass as I make a left hand turn (they have underpasses to avoid making left hand turns across traffic).
• Rainbows after or during the rain
• Seeing the mountains with the clouds hanging over them. 
• Cooking on a gas stove again
• The neighbor who sets out food every morning just before 6:00AM for whatever cats are hanging around her garage doors
• Cafecita - literally "little coffee": used as a time around a table with people drinking tea or coffee with a small snack (usually sweet) 
  
• Being in communication with friends, family and coworkers from around the world via WhatsApp
• Space to walk around my neighborhood in the mornings before we take the kids to school
• Plaintains
• The refreshing rains of the rainy season
• MCCers baking-we have several great bakers on the team
• Seeing how MCCers who have been here longer than we have, have good supports and enjoy their positions and living here
• Song projections in church-it's sorta like closed captioning. And without knowing the words or having a hymnal, it's the way we can sing along 
• Monthly communion in church as a way to connect with Christians from around the world and throughout the ages to celebrate Jesus' life, death and resurrection. 
• Horse carts driving along side motorcycles, bicyclists and cars on busy streets

  

  Cows crossing under the bridge while traffic is backed up on top of the bridge
• Buskers at the intersections-some are quite good-juggling machetes or flaming balls of fire
• That Google maps work so I can find my way around town
• Our kids making friends with children at school
• xJoel and the kids finding space in our street after supper to kick the soccer ball while I read 
• Seeing iguanas and geckos

Iguana on the side of a gas station wall