Dear goodness has it really been since April that I last blogged?! Guess I've been a little busy. Learning another language can do that to a person - make them busy.
Well I have a little story to share with you that just happened to me today. Here in Honduras we have these rooms called bodegas or empleados (storage or employee rooms where the maids sometimes live. These little rooms usually have a toilet, sink and shower or some variety of the 3.) I use my bodega as a storage room. I went in there today for the first time in several months to get some things out of storage. I knew there would be some spiders and ants, etc. But to my horror I never thought I would find a HUGE pile of dirt up to the top of the toilet seat with cockroaches and ants!!
I spent the next hour cleaning up this pile of dirt/cement. I didn't know what to do with all of this dirt (no, I don't need more dirt in the yard.) so I decided to put it in garbage bags. Brilliant idea, or so I thought. First I used a huge yard trash bag and after a couple of shovels full, the bag was so heavy I couldn't move it. "No problem, I'll just use the smaller trash bags." I thought. This was a great idea until I picked up the bags and each one of them broke (you know, you can't have a trash bag stronger than kleenex here.) So, after triple bagging and sweeping up all the dirt a-g-a-i-n I finally got it all cleaned up.
My lessons for the day 1.) go out to the bodega a little more often than once every few months. 2.) triple bag the bags before putting dirt in them. Unless, that is, you don't want a dull day.
