Things that make me happy lately

• People not forgetting that I do still try my best to follow football and keeping me involved
• Meeting the person who runs the “post office,” i.e. the lady who gets mail from the capital of Oco twice a week and calls you when you have something
• My dad making his computer background a picture from our swearing-in ceremony
• People who use the computer to text me for free
• Making my way back to Cones for the first time alone without a hitch, including getting a ride directly to my door from my host sister’s boyfriend
• Anxiously (but happily) awaiting my first batch of letters to come from my World-Wise School partner class, my cooperating teacher from when I was student teaching
• Getting free things from a leaving volunteer (more about this later)
• Being told from an old friend that part of my email to her made her day because it was so funny
• Eating warm, fresh tortillas made by my host mom…but I may be enjoying these too much
• Sleeping “late,” i.e. getting out of bed at just after seven today
• The strawberry-banana licuado (smoothie) I had in San Marcos yesterday
• Emails from my sister about things that only we understand…even if they’re bad things
• The random connections I’ve made here in Honduras
• Spanish getting just a teensy bit easier each day I’m here
• UPDATE (actually, what first inspired this post): Knowing Leanne goes around singing "Peanut Butter Shelly Time" with Harry when she writes back to my emails every Sunday morning

One thing that DOES make me happy but hasn’t lately because it hasn’t happened in a long time…comments here on my blog!