Today we went to a water park. Yeah, I didn’t know they had those in Honduras… but they do. Tarynn used one word to describe it… sketchy.
The kids were really excited to go. Nelson told them the day before that if they finished chopping the grass then they could go to the water park. The kids got up (both boys and girls) at 5 in the morning to start chopping the grass. The kids all have machetes and they’re chopping the grass… it’s beyond dangerous. I can’t even explain how nervous I was for them. One of the girls sliced their knee open and she had to get stitches. But at the end of the day, it was all okay because they got to go to the water park. So we all woke up at 4:15 today to get ready. I didn’t sleep much at all last night so it was extra hard to get up. Then we all got into a bus (the poor bus driver) and we drove for 3 hours to the park. We went in and the first pool we see was empty. No agua at all. Then I find out that this pool was the main pool with the two main slides and there are other little ones around, but that’s it. After this large disappointment, we head to the beach. On the way to the beach there was a zoo. This water park was a weird mixture of all three. There was the slide-pool-water-park stuff/zoo stuff/beach stuff. The beach was beyond dirty, but the kids still had fun. I have to say that the animals were the coolest part. I also have to say that it made me a little nervous because there were jaguars, large snakes, large ostriches, etc. ….and you never know if these gates in Honduras are the real deal. Anyways, the kids had fun and that’s what really matters.
Some of us were talking about the ladies who run this place the other day. They’re sisters and one of them is on vacation in Mexico. These ladies are amazing. They’ve pretty much given their lives for these kids. Txus used to work as a teacher in America. She said that she worked near PUC for a little bit, but when she came to visit her sister, Maria Jose and saw all the help that was needed, she couldn’t stay working where she was. She left her good job and comfortable life in America and came to live here and raise these kids. They’ve given up everything to be a mother to these children who didn’t have anyone. Even though a lot of the kids don’t appreciate it, they continue. It’s a hard hard hard job, but they’re here anyway. It’s beyond admirable and I’m positive that God’s going to give them some pretty sweet rewards in heaven. They deserve it.
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