Election time!

So, I have finally found internet again, my computer has almost completely died now...and the mobile modem I pay monthly for no longer works on this computer. So, yet again more fun and adventures.....

On Tuesday I took Lorena's mum up to the hospital as she is sick and as we drove up the long hospital road I was following a very old pick-up truck, which clearly came from the village. As I looked again at the man sat in the back of the truck I realised he had no arm...not just no arm....it had been (as I found out later) shot off ...so it was a bloody mess at the shoulder blade where the arm once was! Not the pretties view to drive behind. He had come from a village about 45 minutes away and died as he arrived pretty much, poor guy.

School has finished for Christmas....YAY!! I'm so excited!! I am still working on the church directory but it's nearly done now so things are finishing slowly. No more school til 1st week of Feb (this is like the long summer holidays in UK)

Tomorrow we have the general elections. Please pray for peace! Already bomb threats have made everywhere - mainly in the big cities. Bombs threatened for tomorrow as well. All my friends are planning to vote at 6am - before any trouble can start. They are saying we are going to have a curfew from 6pm Sunday night to 6pm Monday night, but we wait to see if this will happen or not. It may just be a National holiday on Monday instead.

In all the craziness and everyone going mad leading up to it, my friend was 'assaulted' today - that is the Spanish translation, can't remember the word in English. She lives in an apartment with another girl (both Honduran) and she was by herself, sleeping in her apartment at 2pm when 2 men broke in. They put a blanket over her head and then tied her feet, put the gun against her and asked her if she wanted to live. Then they realised they had the wrong address! They were looking for someone - that they wanted to kill - but they got it v wrong! So said that's why they weren't going to kill her. They took her money and phone and told her they would kill her if she called the police or anything. And they left. So, she didn't call the police but went straight to her friends house and later to her brother's. But how scary. People are getting brave these days, as predicted by everyone in the run up to elections.

Please pray for protection for the people here in Honduras and for my friends and I.

Good news though. I went for lunch at the Vega's today. They were thanking people for helping them with the aid-relief for El Salvador. Becky's mum decided that I am going to marry a Honduran (trust me there is NO chance of that happening!) and that I need to know how to cook Honduran food, so she taught me how to make Pupusas - traditional Honduran food (that I love) and so I made 40 of them today for everyone and they were v good!

Not sure when I will get to update this again - depends how things go. I wish my computer wasn't so useless so I could use it in my house for internet. If anyone sees any good offers on Laptops please let me know!