A leaky roof....

May 5, 2009


All my life I have had every advantage. When I turned 16 I had my own car and have gone to private schools my whole life. Here in Honduras I am often reminded of just the power me being able to say I am an American has. My passport is pretty much a ticket to anywhere I want to go in the world. I am currently in the process of trying to help my friend Ana visit the United States this summer with me. The goal is to allow her to practice her English and be a better teacher when she gets back and of course just to enjoy visiting and seeing the sights of the United States. However, there is one extremely large obstacle in the way of her doing that and that is getting a visa to visit. Now the process of getting a visa is quite a long process. It starts with getting a passport first. After that you have to go to the bank and buy a card so you can have a preliminary phone interview and set up a time to have your in face interview. Just the in face interview by itself costs over 100 dollars U.S. Now this interview by no means you will be getting a visa. I heard that as low as one out of ten people who apply are actually issued visas. It is a disheartening figure but it is the price of keeping our country safe from people living there illegally. I am not saying we should have totally open boarders but I am a proponent of making it easier for people to visit. When you actually meet these people and meet the people who try to do things the legal way and get refused you feel sorry for them. Like in all things in the world the bad things people do often overshadow the good people in the world and what they are trying to do. I don’t really know if this makes sense but right now I am kind of frustrated with it all and she hasn’t even gone to the interview yet.

On a lighter note my kids are working on their mothers day projects right now the problem is they sneak them home and have their moms help them on them. Now to me it would make sense to not have your mom help on her own present. It kinda ruins the present ya know? Oh well whatever. Tomorrow I have devotions for the whole school and I am of course nervous. I am just ready for this week to be done there is just so much to do and so little time.

Since writing this post a leak has developed in my room…. There is a torrential downpour happening outside and my roof is no longer stopping it…. Not much I can do right now besides ask God for the rain to stop and put a towel and bucket on the ground….