like college again

I´m generally over the college thing. I was thinking about it a couple weeks ago, and I graduated more than 2 years ago. I worked in the States, and now I´ve been working and volunteering in Honduras... and UMass feels worlds away. I´m married, I have an apartment, I live on Roatan, I work and go to the store and buy food- and it´s good.

I mean, college life was great. I could go to the dining hall, no worries about cooking, not much cleaning, just homework and chilling with people. I practiced a lot and hung out with friends a lot, and in the end I read a lot of books and thought about going to seminary.

The good life, right? I did miss it a little while, but I feel good being out. Lots of days I do itch to get to the States and find a ¨stable¨ job to settle down. That´s partly a cultural thing I still have, I think America beckons us to keep moving forward, and the next thing is to move is to get a career, settle down, and start a family.

I´m not saying I need to do the next thing, but lots of days I am starting to miss the States. I miss family, friends, church, things to do... I´m starting to feel the urge to go back. It´s almost 2 years I´ve been here now (home for a month last December), and I won´t be back in December this year. I am starting to think about goals and things I want to do when I get there though.

Anyway, I´ll get there. The visa for Dulce will work out and we´ll get there. One thing I did miss about college but don´t have to anymore is hanging out at a coffee shop. Yes, I was totally a Starbucks guy, spending quite a bit of time there my last year or two of college. That´s why I started drinking coffee instead of hot chocolate, it costs half as much, and I bought a lot of it. Oh the days of being a broke college student, hahaha.

Well something exciting happened last week- they opened Expresso Americano near our apartment. Expresso Americano is the Latin American ¨Starbucks,¨ and it is good. Great coffee, chill environment, a nice place to spend an afternoon.

So that´s where Dulce and I are chilling today. Do I feel like I´m in college again... a little bit. Although, it is harder to pay attention and write when every minute or two someone (Dulce or someone else in the shop) interrupts in Spanish. I can continue writing pretty coherently if people interrupt me in English, but the whole switching languages thing is tougher. Lots of times it is Dulce... Hondurans don´t quite get the ¨I´m blogging and need the time to think¨ thing. She said it was fine if I write and that she´d study English- but it hasn´t happened yet. Hahaha.

So, being a little random here, I feel like I better stop. But- life is good, I´ve spent almost 2 hours in a coffee shop, great coffee, relaxing with Dulce, and enjoying life. Remember- trying to enjoy every minute of it. I promise that next time I won´t write while I´m having Spanish conversations so I make a little more since. Until then, peace.