Hola!

Well we finally made it all the way into Honduras last night!  It is BEAUTIFUL.  And hot...but that part was expected.
The flights all went really well and I had the opportunity to warm up my spanish with my chatty and patient neighbor on the airplane.  He assured me that it would be no problem to find the mysterious and generic "Miguel" after we landed.  I didn't really believe that it would be THAT easy, but it was.  We found Miguel holding a sign that said "Sarah, Samantha, y Carol", which was close enough for us!
Miguel turned out to speak perfect English, drive a air conditioned van, and doubled as a tour guide!  We had a lovely 4 hour drive through Honduras and eventually up a mountain (when we all started feeling a little queasy).  But it sure was pretty!
We also drove through a lot of very poor communities, which is always hard to see.  I was surprised again by how similar poverty looks in different countries.  One difference I noticed as a lot of houses made of some kind of sod-like material in addition to the many corrugated metal siding that I think it pretty typical.  Miguel told us that while poverty is obviously a problem in Honduras, because of the climate even very poor people are able to provide food for themselves, and even raise enough chickens to have meat often, which is awesome.  He said that they don't have wealth, but that they are happy, which is true of so many people :)
In other news, we arrived in our town (Copán Ruinas) at about 6 and met up with Kathy, the woman who runs the school.  She got us set up with out host families and we were off!
Sarah is staying with a large family literally right next to the school.  Sam and I are together about a five minute walk up and down some pretty impressive hills.
Our host family is pretty small, we really only see the mother, but she is great.  She has been hosting students from this school for almost 20 years!  She is very patient with our Spanish and is working very hard to figure out the kinds of foods that we like and don't like.  So far we have had scrambled eggs, hot dogs, beans, platones, some kind of noodle dish, broccoli, and cucumbers.  And coffee!  The street we live on is actually called coffee street, which is kind of neat :)
Sam and I have two separate rooms right next door to each other.  We have our own bathrooms (with hot water!  Who would have guessed?), a dresser, and a bed.  I'll try to get some pictures posted of it in the near future!
This morning we tried to go to church with one of the young girls that Sarah lives with, but we were not very successful.  We arrived at church at 9:01 this morning and were the only ones.  The girl told us that we were a little early (church starts at 9).  So we waited about half and hour for Honduran time to catch up with us, but to no avail.  Apparently, the pastor was in Guatemala...?  We're going to go back tonight to see if we can have more luck!
I think that's about all I have for now.  Sorry for the disorganization...but that's just going to be a reality of this :)  I tried to upload some of the video things that I have gotten, but no dice.  I think it might be asking a little too much of my internet connection.  I'll try again later.

Hasta Luego!  Check Sam's blog for more...she's putting more effort into this than I am :)