It's raining fish in Honduras

It’s raining fish in Honduras 

“llueven peces en Yoro (It’s raining fish in Yoro )” Our teacher wrote on the board. Marlene (the third person in our Spanish study group) and me looked at each other in wonder. We thought that our dictionary was incorrect, cause it couldn’t be true! Maybe she meant a metaphor or it was an expression used here in Honduras. But she insisted, and we had to look it up. It was true. The news confirmed that this was a real phenomenon that happened once a year in an area called Yoro. It “only” took us 25 minutes to understand each other.

The Spanish language is a big challenge for us, especially since Yanet (our teacher) only speaks Spanish and the only way of translation is by a Spanish-English dictionary. But luckily she is really patient and caring. Yanet is always ready with a plenty of encouragement.

About 2 weeks ago Caroline got into an unfortunate accident with a ball. After half day at the hospital with CT-scanning, they said that she had a small concussion.
This meant that she got a week behind in the Spanish lessons, because the doctor recommended her to stay in bed.  After a week, she got better, but she still gets headaches. 

It’s raining love

Just like it is raining with fish, it is raining with love. Before we got here we carried a lot of prejudgmental thoughts with us, and only saw one side of Honduras. Gang crime, theft, murder, corruption and the fact that Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world (that’s not in a war zone) was some of the words that was floating around in our heads. But the reality we experienced was a completely different story. The people we have met so far, are vey loving towards us, and are filled with joy and lots of smiles. They have surprisingly much joy in their lives despite, the hard day to day life some of them are struggling with. 

The country is incredibly beautiful, with mountains, green nature with a lot of colorful flowers. We are really loving this new, charming and foreign country in the central America.

Det regner med fisk i Honduras!

”llueven peces en Yoro(Det regner med fisk i Yoro)” skrev Yanet (vores spankslærer) på tavlen. Marlene (den trejde person i vores spansk gruppe) og jeg ser undrende på hinanden. Vi troede vores ordbog havde oversat sætningen forkert, for det kunne da ikke passe! Måske hun mente det var en metafor eller et udtryk man bruger her i Honduras. Men da hun blev ved med at sige at det var sandt, så blev vi da nød til at tjekke op på det. Minsandten om det ikke var rigtig nok. Nyheder bekræftede at dette var et virkeligt fænomen der forekom en gang om året i området Yoro. Det tog os ”kun” 25 minutter at forstå hinanden.

Det spanske sprog er en stor udfordring at lærer, især når Yanet kun kan tale spansk og den eneste muglighed for oversættelse er en spansk-engelsk ordbog. Men heldigvis er hun utrolig tålmodig og omsorgsfuld. Yanet er altid parat med en masse opmuntrende ord og ros. 

For 2 uger siden kom Caroline ud for et uheldigt sammenstød med en bold. Efter en halv dag hos lægen og hospitalet med CT-scanning, blev det konstateret at hun havde en mindre hjernerystelse. 
Det betød at hun kom en hel uge bagud i spanskundervisningen, da lægen anbefalede hende at være sengeliggende. 
Efter en uge fik hun det meget bedre, men døjer dog stadig lidt med hovedpine.

Det regner med kærlighed

Ligesom det regner med fisk, regner det med kærlighed. Før vi kom hertil havde vi en masse fordomme med i rygsækken, og så kun Honduras fra denne vinkel: Bandekriminalitet, tyveri, mord, korruption og den faktor at Honduras er verdens farligste land (uden for en krigs zone) var nogle af de ord der rumsterede rundt i vores hoveder. Men realiteten vi mødte var en anden. De honduranere vi har mødt indtil nu, har kun været kærlig overfor os, og har givet masser af glæde og smil. De har overraskende meget livsglæde, på trods af den hårde hverdag nogle af dem kæmper med.

Landet er utrolig smukt, med bjerge, frodig grøn natur med en masse farvestrålende blomster- Vi er kommet til at holde af dette charmerende fremmede land midt i Central Amerika.