Tiny updates

Three more tiny notes:

1. The first person from our group went home. Sad in some ways, but it was bound to happen sooner or later. She was in municipal development and we weren't that close. I'm still working on figuring out the whole story, but of course I hope everything is OK with her and her family. But, H-17 is still 98.2% here, which is still impressive.
2. You can add my cousin's girlfriend, Caroline, to my list of Honduran twins...but unlike the others that mostly just remind me of someone back home, she really does have an almost twin. I literally did a double take the other night, I was so thrown off by her. Appropriately, I think she is my cousin (or niece, depending on how I look at my family here).
3. I said my first "no" to something a Honduran person (my nurse counterpart Valerie) asked me if I could do. This was stressed -- being able to say no to things -- a lot to us, by training officials, other volunteers, and sometimes even our counterparts themselves. It's OK to say no and it did feel good, because I know I would have been full of anxiety if I had said yes. I am in no way ready to give a charla to pregnant women, nor do I want to. I was also surprised because I was asked if I would do so right after I had changed around an entire section of my work plans (also completely moving some dates way up) to accommodate Valerie and her plans. But hopefully she won't hold it against me and understands.

That's all for now!