bday and hurricane unite

hello everybody......

so today... one year older and still feels like always..... thought i tell you quicly how i ve celebtraed my bd day this year.... i thought.. as always... i can not just have a bday like everyone else... so i decided to make a locos party... meaning evyone had to dress up as crazy as they could..... meaning wigs, sunglasses, funky clothes... all that you can imagine... and some people successfully accomplished.... real bless.... acutally i was quite surrised of who from initially 25 invitation in the end over 50 people showed up... to party my birthday.... i was so surprised and happy at the smae time.... nice music, good athmosphere and all my new friends have gathered..... i can t complain... i guess it was just one of the many luci partys... the only difference is that i was on the other side oof the world.... but i cant tell you.,... how much i miss you gues around here.... the party was so different... but big big promis i ll continue my tradtition back in vienna....


about the hurricane warnings... yes it is party serious... but i guess you just have to know how to handle it all... i ts reaining amost all day and sometimes you can t walk on the streets because the flood is too strong... but fortunately my house is not concerened, given the fact that i live up on a hill and the water does not actually aenter my house or anything like this.... but other than that... the strange thing is if its raining so extremely it stops like from one second tot the other , the sun come s out and dries it all up within no time.... so i guess this climate is gonna change soon given the fact that its kind winter here... with approximately 20 degrees and strong rainfall....

so far so good.... i send you heaps of love and hugs.....

all the best\


lucia

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.....

Amapala

Domingo 12.10.2008 So today I finally got out of Tegucigalpa…. Together with my family we went down to the South to an island called Amapala…. It is approximately 2 hours from Tegus… and the way down there is a piece of beautifully green landscape and on the one hand beautiful nature but this is mixted together with houses that sometimes are not connected to electricity , neither have running water and simply consist couple of wooden walls and nothing more…. the laungery hanging on the trees around the houses and little kids playing in the mud. … today was pretty hard… we had 38 degrees and while we were sitting in the car and going down to the South, these people daily ha ve to outlive this heat with hardly any protection like for example a solid house.
Anyhow, when we arrived to the little town where the boats go from to Amalapa… we got to a little little boat which took us from the main land to the vulcanic island. Only consisting of a couple of little beaches and a gigantic vulcanic hill which was completely covered with wood. Serisouly a breathtaking view for me…. For the honduran people on the other hand… the south coast is to be said the most ugliest coast in Honduras. For me … who has been longing for going to the beach… I was overwhelmed… so when we finally arrived to the little island… we went directly to the beach… where little kids were playing in the water… old man were chatting under the shadow of the trees… some others were relaxing in amaks of a restaurant that was directly located at the beach … and I was simply jumping into the water, and enjoying my newly found life.. hehe… I was so happy to be here in exactly that moment…. To my right hand.. palicans were fishing and relaxing…. It was so fascinating to see them somewhere else but the Zoo…

bailar en el centro garifuna

Dancing in Centro Garifuna….
So as I already told you in the last update… I started to dance with some of my ICYE friends in the Centro Garifuna… the kind of dances we dance is mostly salsa, merenge, bachata, cumbia,…. And other to me so far unknown dances…. But I seriously found my passion. We are approximately 8 girls right now and have a 24 year old, really nice and passionate dance teacher… his name is luis by the way… Luis…. He can move his hips like I have never seen ever before in my life… I am so overwhelmed and he has such a positiv aura… motivates everyone just with looking at us… and is really a sweetheart…
After we started our dance classes we went out with him and another girl called Alice… and got to know each other…. so as consequence Alice invited us to her birthday which took place in sabor cubano…. Just image it like to be “la rosa negra” from dirty dancing 2…. It seriously is like that…. Everyone can dance like crazy… and you feel like in paradise when watching people dancing… of course the pleasure part starts, when you are on the dance floor as well and are part of this fabolous feeling…. So all together we went to sabor cubano… to apply our newly learned dance moves… but I have to admit… it was not so much fun…. UNTIL Luis showed up and started to dance with me…. I was having such a great time… incredible…J how he could make me move… just a slight twist in my hands … and I ended up turning in kind of ways, that I never knew I could … hehe….