Thus far my Honduran adventure has been nothing short of amazing!
The journey began at about 1:30 in the morning in Fresno, CA with an In-N-Out burger and fries. Three and a half hours later Sonia and I arrived at LAX. (A big thanks to Colin and Megan for making the midnight trek to LA and getting Sonia and I to the airport safely.) LAX is overwhelming......but LAX at 5 am is incomprehensible. Sonia and I (in our matching Unite For Sight T-shirts) quickly noticed that we were the only ones speaking English, everyone else was speaking Spanish.....very fast Spanish. Although I was catching a conversation here and there I think my personal train of thought was something like "Ohh S***". All and all though our trip to Tegus went very well :-)
When we arrived at our new home, the ApartaHotel, we were quickly welcomed by fellow volunteers. Although I think Sonia and I were ready to collapse, we went to dinner with them anyways and discovered that we were surrounded by some beautiful people.
Early on Wednesday morning I left, along with Sonia and Sherrie (another volunteer), for a brigada in Marcala. A brigada is basically a rural outreach. We provide basic screenings, patients meet with an optometrist and we also hand out glasses. We saw over 180 patients in 2 days! My 1st brigada experience was rather amazing and as I'm sitting here I'm realizing hard to explain. So because I want to go to bed I think I will contemplate this later......but I will say that the majority of the people that we saw at the brigada have close to nothing yet they all seem to be content.
Pictures to Come!
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