Update

We’ve been in Honduras for several days now and we feel like we are starting to settle in a little bit. We got a small table for our “living room”, a dresser for our bedroom, a piece of furniture with shelves that we use for shoes, medicine, bathroom stuff, and other miscellaneous items, a mirror for our bathroom, a hammock for the front of our house, and a few other items. Our house is beginning to feel a little bit more like a home – or as much of a home as an all-cement building with hardly anything in it could feel.

Here are a few miscellaneous things to mention:
• Hailey planted her first flowers outside our house – we’ll see if they will grow. We are hoping to start a vegetable garden in the next few weeks, but there is a lot of preparation that still needs to be done before we are ready.
• We did our laundry for the first time – it probably took 40 minutes and then we hung the clothes on a clothesline that we made behind our house. We decided that it would probably be better to clean a few items of clothing each day instead of waiting till our bin is full.
• We have been walking to a river almost every afternoon with Micah. He sure enjoys getting his feet wet and playing in his fancy swimsuit. It is also a nice place to get away as a family.
• We finally got our bedding yesterday – the first few nights we shared one pillow and used someone else’s blankets.
• I (Joseph) began teaching yesterday. The students are a lot of fun, but there has not been a ton of consistency or structure in the teaching, which makes things difficult. I am hoping to order some curriculum to start using in a couple months. Hopefully that will help.
• In Honduras, it seems that nothing goes as planned and everyone is OK with it. We are starting to become OK with it as well.
• Micah is having a harder time adapting to certain things than we are. He is doing great with his naps and nighttime sleeping (even with all the noise) and he really enjoys the food. He is having a more difficult time adapting to the environment during the day and always wants to be with us. He is not really letting anyone else hold him, which means that Hailey or I have to be constantly watching him. Hopefully as time goes on, he will adapt more.

Hailey has been taking some pictures using our point-and-shoot camera, so I am posting a few of them below. There is a picture of: Hailey watering a garden that a volunteer planted just before we got here, Micah’s new friend, Jared; our “retreat” by the river, the inside of our home, and a few others. Enjoy! ☺