Elicia's Adventures

March 14, 2011
Dear The Family!!!
Do you have skpye cuz i want to skpye you tomorrow

 happenings in Honduras......So Iv decided to change my name....Apperently its just to hard to say and remember. when people try to say my whole name it comes out some thing like this lica ooly. O and the fact that i dont have a middle name, people here are like wait none, no, none??? And i have to say ya thats right its just ELICIA DOOLEY, then they repeat it "'o just lica ooly''...Ya sure close enough. So thats been fun also Im thinking that im going to have to change my major becuase no one here understands how, me taking youth in the wilderness can possible be a job. Its funny to see there faces as i try to describe what i do.
Ok so the reason i havent writen in a bit is because the people here are awesome they want us to be apart of everything and they want to show us every thing and they want to feed us EVERYTHING!!! First off on monday we went shopping with our friend karen and then she took us up to were all the way nice houses are that the drug lords live in, there the coolest houses ever this one looked like a castle it was sweet. Afterward we went to her house and had a BBQ with her family and the sister missionaries. Who by the way are the best ever, one of the sisters is from Utah and its so nice to be able to talk to her in rapid english and not have to repeat any thing. we are hoping that they can take a trip with us to some ruines that are a couple of hours away form our city.
 On tuesday it was back to the beach but this time it was karen her brother and his two friends and kathryn and me. Its always more fun when there are more people. We stopped be the side of the road and got some cocconut water which i think is supper gross but the people here love it they think it is sweet, i think they are crazy!
But tell you what Holy cow I LOVE the ocean, we got there and kathryn and i took off strait for the docks and jumped right in only puasing for a second to slip our shoes off. which probably wasnt the best idea because there are quiet a bit of jelly fish that hang around there. so you are suppose to look before you jump...but o well we were just so happy to be there! after we jumped and swam for awhile we decided to go on a Bananna ride! you can pay people to take you out on this big bananna tube thing behind there boat. IT IS THE BOMB!! my arms are still sore from the death grip i had on the hand holds. the guys that we were with kept trying to tip us so when they would all lean one way all us girls would lean the other so we wouldnt tip.....unfortunately the guys were faster then us and would switch sides so that we were all leaning the same way and wham!! we would hit that water like a bunch of rag dolls. I came away with a fat lip and a big headache from peopole landing on me and tons of bruses.....SO worth it!!!
So the BIg thing this week for all the young single adults was a formal dance at the institute building on friday. And everyone insisted that we go and that they would help us get all the stuff we needed! We said yes of course we would go, kathryn was way excited becuase she knows how to latin dance and she said that it would be against all that is right in the world if she came clear to Honduras and didnt get to go latin dancing. I on the other had was slightly less excited about it me a 5'9 white clumsy girl trying to latin dance in a country were everyone is at least a head shorter then me........But kathryn is right i cant be in honduras and not at least give it a try. And hey who cares if i fall all over myself... its all part of the adventure! so all our spare time was spent going all over the city looking for dresses and shoes for the formal, kathryn and i were not to excited about buying any thing expencive so this lady from the our chruch took us to all these sweet second had stores (which for someone like me who hates shopping i rather enjoyed it), we found some cool stuff but in the end i got lucky cuz our friend karen had an aunt that was just my size so i was able to borrow a dress from her!!!(i'll post the pics of us all dresses up). So Friday came and o my goodness I LOVe latin dancing its all about moving the hips and shaking everything else. And tell you what these Hondurans know how to shake it!! Kathryn and i had fun trying but i dont think we really succeeded.  O so being the only american girls at a dance is kinda like being a movie star....every one is always looking at you even if they are dancing with someone else, they are still staring not just looking but staring at you....thus i have come to the conclusion to never become a movie star! So other then all the staring I really enjoyed it.
loves
Lica Bob(my new middle name) Ooly