We've come into October with not much to report. The weather is shifting now and we are beginning to see more what the term "rainy" season means. Last weekend we spent most of our time relaxing at home, keeping dry as it rained hard all day. Classes are going very well and except for the occasional power outage or lack of water, we are doing great. This weekend we traveled to San Pedro Sula to pick up Bekky (David's sister) from the airport and to go to the Honduras vs. Canada soccer game. Our day started out with some dissapointing news that the bus we had planned to take did not leave at the time we expected and the next bus left too late. We had to give in and pay for the luxury busline to take us to San Pedro. We arrived at the station and took a taxi to the airport. We waited anxiously for Bekky to come off the plane, but then when the last passengers came off and she wasn't among them we were confused. There were a couple other families who too did not get to see their loved ones. We waited for the next plane to come in 4 hours later and she was there! We went directly from the airport to the soccer stadium and arrived at half time. It was pretty exciting to see all the fans, players and craziness of a soccer game here in Honduras. Since soccer is the most popular sport here, people get really into it. We were happy it was not two rival Honduran teams but rather all of Honduras united against another team. That made for a much safer game. Despite David's honduran jersey, people kept asking if we were Canadian or rooting for the Canadians. We won 3-1 and after the game Zach commented that he could have gone without the last goal. His reason for saying this was that with every goal most fans throw whatever they have in their hands or in their neighbor's hand. This means that beer, soda, popcorn etc. explodes over the fans below. We unfortunately were part of those fans and left the game covered in various liquids.
The local Copan adult soccer team organized a bus to take people to the game, the tickets and the ride back for a certain price. That is how we got our tickets and luckily is how we got home. If we hadn't decided to do this excursion, we would have had to stay the night somewhere in San Pedro Sula since the regular busses stop traveling to Copan at 6pm. So we got to ride the bus back that night, arriving back in Copan at 2am. Some of the passengers decided that it would be fun to blast music during the entire trips so our plans for sleeping were sadly not an option.
We have been having fun with Bekky showing her our favorite local sites. Yesterday after church we walked to the ruins and took a nice nature hike which ended up in a jungle adventure since we lost the path. Last night we spent time over at her host family's house which is just across the street from us. We played board games with her host brother who is in sixth grade at Mayatan. Today she started classes and we have plans to meet up and go to the bird park here in Copan.
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