Geeking Out

The past couple of days in class we covered two of my favorite things: Politics and Economics. Who doesn't love a little corruption and free trade agreements?!

Our class has diverse opinions on the subject of politics and we got into a great discussion yesterday. It was cut short by a fantastic guest speaker who gave us more background on why Honduras is the way it is politically. One word: history. 

Plus Kurt made a suggestion to watch the West Wing - checkmate. Already done. 

Two visits we have gotten to make as part of class are to the US Embassy and the Honduran Congress. The Embassy was awesome and loaded with information and lots of seeing what they are there for. Honduran Congress was my personal favorite (the group is divided). They brought us through the building and then we went to the legislative floor, sat in the chairs, talked on the microphones, all that jazz. Even took a vote to see if we should applaud for our speaker! 

If you are geeking out at this two paragraph summary let me know and I'll gladly get you some the readings we've done.

This past Saturday a few of us went up to Valle de Angeles for the day. It's a cute little touristy town with lots of souvenir shops and a great central plaza (pictures below). It is a pretty well known POI for mission teams or other gringos in the area. Which was odd spotting other non-Hondurans and being able to understand them. I will buy a hammock there someday. 

My older sister, her husband, 3 year old, and 6 month old have been visiting for the past few days from Southern Honduras. Sunday I got some bonding time with the baby in a hammock. Life was great until his abuela came along and I had to give up Jorge. 

I hope everyone's Labor Day weekend was a relaxing success! Take care. 

Here are some pictures of our little excursion to Valle. 

above. little plaza park thing we found. super cute. 

above. aren't they cute?! Yay for candid photos!