one more little thing...

Oh yeah, so after I posted the previous blogito (little blog) we went swimming around in that same bay down the road from our house. We got down there and heard a lot of swishing around in the water. There were tons of little fishies in a swarm. We didn't really know what was going on on this particular moonless night, but it was cool and we decided to swim regardless. We were hanging out in the shallow area for a good hour until we noticed something super-duper. Harrison moved his hands swiftly underwater and noticed a glow. Then we all did it and realized we were surrounded by bioluminescent creatures!! Little dinoflagelettes everywhere. It was crazy. A first for me. Then we walked into the sea grass area and it was about 10 times brighter/bigger. I am guessing that they were feeding on the algae. I don't fully understand why they gravitated to the bay by our house, but I AM fully filled with awe from getting to witness such a cool creation.


The next day Harry, John, and I went to the same bay to look for lobster and get some swim exercise. Turns out John is an amazing swimmer/specimen-of-man (yeah, I said it). The only way out of the bay and out into the ocean is through a narrow and shallow (1.5 ft by 2ft maybe) opening through the coral. It's a little rush doing little swim strokes to go against the waves if it's windy. I think we have found the best way is to get some speed and glide through. Good stuff. Anyways, John can free dive so stinkin deep and he is giving us some impromptu lessons. I think Harry and I are already improving. We had some distractions though, as we were surrounded by little jellies. Their sting is somewhere between a mosquito and a bee, so it's really just annoying more than scary. As long as I can keep them off the face then I'm good...that's my money maker right there.

Later that day..uh, yesterday..we met up with some of the street kids that Harry met last year. Their "home life" is the definition of humble if it is existent at all. They have hardly any education and subject to pretty grim future. Harry really wants to take this group under his wing, especially since have a lot of them have so much potential if they only had access to such simple resources (simple for us anyways). We went fishing with them for a little while (coke bottles with fishing line wrapped around it) and then swam around and made up some aquatic games. We took them to get some baliadas later. Baliadas are Honduran staples- tortilla, bean, cheese, an some other big ingredient like eggs, chicken or avocado. Yummy, bad for you, and about 15 limpiras (less than $1). This whole day was full of activity and it felt like we were walking around Baylor campus with all the people that we knew.




Oh yeah, also: 34-3. Sic ‘em Bears!!

Good start to a Good day

Soooo, I know I suffer from some severe blog absenteeism, and for that I am sorry.  It has been stupid busy down here during the first full week of school.  I will give a legit updates of funky fish finds, new people, irish accents, garifuna parties, getting schooled in soccer, etc later today or this weekend, but let this suffice as an appetizer for now:

I woke up at 4:50am this morning with my roommates Harrison and John.  Harrison was a teacher here last year (and now this year) and John is temporarily chillin on our living room floor until he finds his own place.  Harrison is a cool dude and reminds me of Paul Walker and John is a pretty awesome pre-med dude down here volunteering at Clinica Esperanza (http://clinicaesperanza.homestead.com/).  Anyyywaysss...we got up at 4:50am this morning jamming to the "Waving Flag"  World Cup song, went snorkeling in the bay down the street, hunted and killed (?) the same lionfish I saw before, and allllmost caught some lobster.  The sun wasn't even up when we woke up.  All this was accomplished with enough time to shower up and walk down the dirt road to catch the school bus at 6am.

Shallow coral area- once you get past this you're outta the bay and into the big ol' ocean.