El Hydrogen Peroxide

Today the three of us went horseback ridding in the mountains. The school set us up with a wonderful (chatty, chatty, chatty) guide who has been doing this forever. My horse was named Mariposa (butterfly) and was my typical headstrong horse. (Family, you can go ahead and picture our Colorado adventure except shorter and in Spanish.) We had a good time and really enjoyed the views.
When we were almost back, we did have a little mishap that ended with Sam on the ground and me itching to whip out my hydrogen peroxide.
Our guide guy wanted to take us through a short cut and so was yelling out directions (in Spanish) and we got a little confused. Sam and her horse went down a little footpath that apparently our guide didn’t want them on. The foot path was very close to the highway like thing that we were supposed to be walking on. While trying to turn her horse around on the narrow footpath to get back onto the highway, Sam’s horse found a quicker way. Rather than turning around, the horse decided to walk under on of those green metal highway signs. Needless to say, Sam did not fit under the sign. Instead, Sam crashed into it, broke it loose of it’s bolts (Praise the Lord for quality Honduran road sign construction), and then some how fell off the horse and onto the ground after taking no less than two metallic smacks to the face. Thankfully, she walked away (uh, got back on the horse) with just two small scrapes and only a tiny bit of blood--both on her arms. ¡Qué miraculoso! Our guide, however, fared much worse. He couldn’t stop telling us, in RAPID Spanish, how embarrassed and sorry he was, how this had never happened before, how badly it had scared him, etc. He has offered to take us on another ride on Saturday for free, but I think we’ve had enough horses for this trip :)
Now if you’re really looking for a laugh, you should picture the three of us trying to retell it in Spanish and Pantomime--not an easy task!
Sam has been sufficiently doused in Hydrogen Peroxide and bandaged up, and we are about to have our fist lunch out at “Llama del Bosque”!

Also, I got to talk to our school director woman yesterday about working. She has us set up to help at what is either an elementary school or just a kindergarten during the mornings for the next two weeks. I am very excited because as much fun as we have been having, things had started to feel a little too vacation-y for me!