Oscar and CASS

So my Professor Oscar... He is a very amusing guy. We were working out of our book today going over using the preterit, a form of past tense verbs in Spanish. He was asking me about my trip here and I was explaining to him that I sat at the airport for about 9 hours in San Pedro Sula. But I told him a young Honduran boy entertained me. There was a young buy about 7 years old that was playing on a little game boy and he must have been playing a game from the movie 300. 300 is the American movie about the Spartans for those who haven’t watched it or haven’t watched the South Park spoof. About every 5 minutes while he was playing he would run up to either his mom or dad and in English say, "THIS IS SPARTA"! I was dying because other than that he didn't seem to speak a spec of English. As soon as I told Oscar there was a 300 game for game boys and about the boy at the airport he flipped out and seriously acted out the entire movie! He was quoting all of the lines IN ENGLISH, which he is by no means fluent, and acting out all of the action scenes. Once I felt he was winding down to the end of the movie I told him I would give him five minutes and then he needed to teach me some Spanish. He said he ABSOLUTELY loves the movie and I guess quite of few of Hondurans do. He seriously knew EVERY scene of the movie and even the action moves to go along with it. He was using my pen as his sword and his book as his shield. I was dying laughing and told him I was going to bring my camera tomorrow to take a video of him. He then was totally embarrassed and said no... But it still was absolutely hilarious!

At this school there are a total variety of people, which I expected. And many of them are doing volunteer work. There is a family here from LA, CA who are having there kids take 6 weeks of classes, the morning classes, while volunteering in the afternoons. They are hoping that the kids will skip a year of Spanish in High School. The father is a Dr. from LA and he is here to volunteer at the local Hospital. The mother I believe will be volunteering as well. But they are all living in different home stays and just meeting up in the mornings. The father said he felt the need to come here because in LA the majority of his patients speak Spanish and are from Central America and he felt it would really help him to communicate by improving his Spanish. He also felt the need to bring his wife and kids here because he feels his entire family needs to learn that the world is so much bigger than LA and the US. Based on first impressions they are a very neat family and I cannot wait to get to know them better.

Also, I met up with 5 volunteers that are working at various sites for HHK yesterday. It was really great to meet all of them and I cannot wait to get there.

I hope everyone is doing well. Also, I am usually typing these in a rush at an internet café where I am watching the minutes add up. So please disregard all of my terrible grammar errors. Aside from being a terrible writer in the first place I am about 5 times worse when I am in a rush.

PS Andre thanks for the piping comment! Actually as I was walking here I was thinking about that in my head and knew I had typed it wrong! But at least I was close.