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The second image I saw was at a basketball liked to spend court. A few of time with them rather than the party.Whenever I looked at the tayo driving all of our luggage ahead of
the vans, I thought, it takes a lot of resources the taller guys on the trip and I (the only one shorter than six feet tall) went to go play basketball with some of the local basketball players. We started playing at dawn, and the sun shortly went down. That is when we realized that there was only one street lamp (on the corner of the block) to light the entire court. Poor planning, I thought again. Then the light went out during a basketball game. I figured that everyone would go home and wait for someone to fix it, when Dan told me thatTegucigalpa, I did not know what to expect, but it felt like New York City to me (I am not saying they are similar in their intricacies),there was a vibe that I recognized as similar to how I feel in my home or New York City. Antonio drove me around the city looking for a tetanus vaccine and a clinic, I cannot say enough about him.
I learned a great deal about water treatment processes all around, effectiveness and ineffectiveness, well planned and poor planned, high maintenance, expensive and reasonable, well taught or proprietary, etc; getting the chance to visit and just study helps with conceptualizing. In Honduras you can see the physical expense of AguaClara, you see that there are people who are unconcerned with this topic and do not care for our presence in their lives making sure you maintain the awareness of the challenges to the work we want to do. In the midst of this, you get to work with amazing people and meet, teach, and learn from promising children along the way. (there is more to be written)
this was a light that the basketball players paid for. One of them (called "the doctor" because he was a pharmacist) collected money from everyone in order to support the electrical bill for this one street lamp that they needed to play basketball twice a week. I saw that the Hondurans didn't leave or get upset. They simply waited for ten minutes until the light flickered back on, and resumed playing. Today I think I saw some of the resilience and patience of the residents of Tegucigalpa.
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