weekend with hermanita fanni

so what has been happening the last week?.... my sister fanni has visited me with walter.... unfortunetely only for a weekend... but these 3 days were a real bless... it was soooo good to have a piece of home here in tegus.... on friday, after gigantic problems for their airplane to land.... with a 5 hour delay and jetlag the two arrived .... went to a really nice restaurant called criollos on boulevard morazan... thats like the main bar and restaurant street..... ate delicious food, catched up.... so i know everything about home not.... well at least as far as its possible saturday I picked them up from the luxurious hotel they lived in... like 5 minutes from my place and we went to the city center where carlos, a boy from casa alianza was giving us a guided tour through the town... from the old churches to the oldest streets and best views... he s told us everything... well he primarilly told me and then i translated as far as i could to english for fanni and walter.... sometimes it was simply impossible because he speaks most of the time caliche... that the honduran version of spanish.. like wienerisch.... hard to understand at times... but what do you want to do?... well.. hmmm.. after going to the mercado.. which represents honduras i guess the most... dirty, noisy, children playing on the dirty floor and everyone want to sell something to you.... carlos my sweet little kid.... is 17 ... and studies tourism... but his destiny was far everything from easy. with 11 his mom died in cancer, he got to his grandmom, who abused him and forced him to child labour.... his uncle sexually herousd him... and when he was 13, his brother who was a member of the mara salvatruche... got killed in a gang war.... for for the last 4 years hes been in casa alianza.... very optimistic and joyful... for me hard to believe given the fact of what he s been through.... amazing kid...! seriously-.... so after one full morning in tegus we went in the afternoon to valle de angeles... a town like 1 hour from tegus... by car... and visited, ate and enjoyed each others company.... cant complain.... sunday... fanni and walter invited me to this delicious freshly prepared breakfast... in their hotel.... i felt like in heaven.. seriously.....