Oldie But Goodie

This is a blatent repost but as I am overwhelmed with work (I should have already done but was blogging) I need to do it. Enjoy.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Why Blackberrys are Dangerous
Actual email I sent to my Mom while she is on vacation..."So Peter and I are totally drunk and I decided to email you to let you know. If we were drink img Carib with you we would probabbly not be so drunk. Byt the way we decieded if we had a child and it was a girl her name would be Vesper.Love JenSent via BlackBerry by AT&T"My Mom told me this was the first drunk email/text she'd ever received. Let this be a lesson.

Finally! The Scorpion

In this post I mentioned that my Mom had a confrontation with a scorpion. This information had been relayed to me via my brother, T, when he let me know that she was alive and well in Honduras (you see, she forgot to text me to let me know). Anyway, this is it. It doesn't look big on first glance BUT, that leaf, is the size of my hand, fingers spread out. It was outside the house that she stays in on the orphanage property when she is there.

Orphanage, you say? Yes, my mom spends about 2 weeks every quarter in Honduras volunteering at an orphanage/school. She is a retired teacher. When this opportunity came up, she took an immersion course in Spanish in Guatemala and although her accent is that of an American learning Spanish, she is doing really well with it.

Some of the stories about the kids there will break your heart. One kid they nick named machete because his mother beat him with one, and not the flat side. One keeps running back to the streets because he can't adjust to any other life. Also, there are 'police' that round up street children cart them out of the cities and either kill them or just abandon them.

P and I joke that since we don't have kids my Mom is going get off the plane someday with a child for us to adopt. Someday I hope to go with my Mom for one of her trips down there (P can speak Spanish pretty fluently and I can understand it very well, it's the speaking part I have trouble with). For now, she'll just have to tell us about her adventures.