Wrapping Up

Day 16 at Orphanage Emmanuel
Wednesday, I got up to go to work. In truth, work came to me. The guys were mowing the grass outside the MVH so I just started helping them. Since we were so close to the MVH I went in after a while for a water break. It was then that my phone rang. Well, it wasn't my phone but it was one I was using at the time, rang. The phone number had the same first five digits as my mother's phone number so I answered and said, "What's up?". A guy answered in spanish and, even though he was talking a million miles an hour, I discerned four things: I'll kill you, something about money, I'll be at your house in twenty minutes, and don't call the fuzz. I told the guy that there are four things wrong with his plan. 1) I didn't know him, 2) I had no idea what he was talking about, 3) I had no money, and 4) I didn't live in Honduras and unless he was twenty minutes from my house in WISCONSIN I wasn't too concerned. Well then he realized that he had the wrong number and said he was going to kill me for knowing too much anyway. Okay... You have to find me first sir. Anyway after the interesting phone call I had to go meet up with mom at the clinic so that she could tell me when I needed to be there to relieve Brittany. I blogged a bit and then headed back to the clinic. The clinic was almost out of people. They had one kid left with chicken pox. I got there and there were now five. Fantastic. What more, two of them were toddlers. Even more fantastic. So I stayed and helped my mom when she showed up for her shift and I was dead by the time I got back to the MVH.

Day 17 at Orphanage Emmanuel
I got up and cleaned the house a bit. Then I went off to eat some lunch where I talked to Wade. Wade took me to the farm where they had built a corral. It was why they needed me to dig holes one day. There was a guy there who was painting it and I was to help him. He was a volunteer from Alabama and so we just talked and listened, and sang, to the "Moldy Oldies" because there were no kids around. Only christian music is allowed around the kids. After the corral I went back to the clinic to relieve Brittany until two other volunteers showed up. One of the volunteers told me to swing by the FVH to get some supper my mom made. So I "swung" by and got some very tasty soup my mom made. I then enjoyed it as I rehearsed my daily commercials at the MVH.

Day 18 at Orphanage Emmanuel
Today I purposely hauled myself out of bed early to go to my last chance at witnessing big circle before I left. What can I say about that, it was a big, and circular gathering of everyone. Different houses had to memorize chapters of the bible for the week and so I heard that. The kids got themselves into a rythem with the reciting. After that, I did some dishes, laundry, tv watching, and packing all at the same time before going over to the team volunteer house (TVH) to meet them to go in to town. I met them and they welcomed me to eat what remained of their supper so they were instantly my friends. Then the people and I took our trip into town where I served as Mister Translator Negotiator Man for the team. They stopped at every store in on the one street we were on and it took them from 1pm to 3pm. That was something. But I had to get back for the Final Countdown. So the team said if I had to go that was fine because they knew enough spanish to get them around. So I went back and went straight to John. I asked him my question and he said I needed to talk to Wade. Wade wasn't there at the moment so I went back to the MVH to collect my supplies and give the phone I was using to another volunteer. When I came back Wade still wasn't with the older guys but John let Christian off supper early. And so it began. After countless, thoughtful moves I bested Christian and that left everything 4-3 me for the year. After that I said my goodbyes and went back to the MVH to pack. I also pulled an all-nighter by myself because Owen was in the clinic. I was going to put some dishes away but I pulled open the cupboard to see two cockroaches, eh, getting busy, if you know what I'm saying. That is until they were "BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!" So I just watched movies and played loud music all night long to keep me awake. How I needed some soda.

Day 19 leaving Orphanage Emmanuel
At 4:30 in the morning I packed the last thing and headed out, saying goodbye to the MVH. All the memories we've shared. Ah, who am I kidding there were no memories. I headed down the accursed hill for the last time and was sir tripped-a-lot on the way down. I headed (in the dark mind you because there are no lights way out in the boonies where the MVH is) towards the FVH where my mom was waiting for me. We then headed into town (walking again) and waited at a bus stop. This was a different one. We weren't alone as it turned out. Three other volunteers had soon joined us on the bus. I stayed awake until we left then I KO'd. My mom woke me up and we got off the bus in Tegucigalpa. My mom caught a taxi and he drove us (thank God) to the Hedman Alas station where we then took the bus to San Pedro. We stopped halfway for lunch at the same restaurant oasis Jenny. But they cut the stop short due to their schedule and road construction. Seven Pounds was playing on the bus instead of Anacondas. But I slept on that bus ride as well. We got to San Pedro and were picked up by Luis so we could get to the B&B. We got there and mom and I dropped our stuff off before going to the mall so my mom could go shopping. After that we went to the two story McDonalds and two things were interesting there. One, is that the McChicken chicken patty was an oversized Chicken McNugget. The second, was that there was a birthday party goin on upstairs because there were roughly thirty happy meals on the counter, I assumed that the birthday boy was a middle aged man with his work colleagues. Anyway we went back to the B&B stopping at a clothes store on the way for mom and a little food store. Now we're just chillaxing and waiting for tomorrow to get back into the states to get home for a decent burger... Oh wait, that's just me.
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