A New Post

March 22, 2009

Well it has been pretty much forever but I thought I would update. I just got back from a recruiting trip to the United States where we went looking for teachers. I did some snowboarding with Branden and showed Vicente snow for the first time. I also had the chance to see my family which was quite awesome as well. It is almost semana santa and we are headed to Guatemala and most likely Belize so I am quite excited about that all. It should be a good chance to relax, see new country and hang out with American friends. Since I had the time I wanted to pick a topic to write about as well and today it is dating.

Dating here in Honduras seems to be kind of a crazy thing. One of my friends here she is Honduran and as far as I can tell grew up very poor. At the same time however, she is very beautiful. She has a boyfriend who is a rich “missionary” who routinely visits Honduras. Now my friend is about 20 years old the missionary is almost retired and probably about 60 years old. Now in life it is often hard to determine what is right or wrong or what you should do in the name of Christ but to me there seems to be a little something weird going on here. Being an American here in Honduras pretty much automatically makes you attractive. So sometimes I find myself in awkward situations like yesterday. I was out by a “pool” with some of my friends and a forward older lady in her 30’s was hitting on me. It has happened more then one time. To me it kinda weirds me out but I guess they are curious. Here in Honduras as well by the time a girl turns 17 or 18 she is quite ready to be married. In the U.S it is quite different but here sometimes I am hit on by girls who are a decent amount younger then me and I even will have people encourage me to pick one out but all I can think about is how they are like High School age. Life here is much different and there is always something new to adjust to. All I have to say is that a nice normal date sounds kinda good. I would like the kind of date where I buy the girl dinner and flowers and talk to her in English and have her close to my age.