{"id":1759,"date":"2013-05-29T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:10:26","slug":"1759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2013\/05\/29\/1759\/","title":{"rendered":"A sad day: preparing to say goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks 29 days left. Less than a month in Honduras and less than 3 days left in Copan. What?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard \u2013 and you can tell the group is feeling it too. We are just simply missing home. The realization of the actual length of 6 weeks has hit and it\u2019s starting to cause frustration,\u00a0 sadness, and withdrawal.\u00a0 I think it\u2019ll all be fine, actually I know it will. But for now, \u201cwhen your lost and alone, and your sinking like a stone, carry onnnnnn.\u201d Is our theme song.<\/p>\n

Today was a relaxing day with a morning spent at the pool and an afternoon at school. I spent a portion of my morning playing school with Christal.\u00a0 Oh, we also tango like my dad and I used to. She was giggling just as much as I was. Now, she comes up to me all the time and says, \u201cQuiero bailar! Quiero bailar!\u201d (I want to dance! I want to dance!). So we tango and she giggles and I giggle, and we dance and \"\"<\/a>we simply enjoy life \u2013 the way everyone should.<\/p>\n

Someone once said that children know how to switch back and forth between reality and imagination, something adults have forgotten how to do. I have reentered that childlike place, I have found the me I remember from 12 years ago. Just thinking about leaving her in a few days makes me want to cry, I love her so much.<\/p>\n

Scratch that. I am crying. Bawling like a baby in fact. I keep replaying in my mind all of our playtimes and giggles, her screaming my name at my bedroom door, her knocking and then hiding, her hilarious \u201cyou don\u2019t make sense face\u201d, and her 4 year old self singing into a watering can like a microphone. She is such a great little person.<\/p>\n

Last night I heard her mom talking to someone else and she said, \u201cwhenever Alisa is here, Christal is smiling and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much as I wanna go home, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Tonight, our group watched a spanish movie at the school called \u201cSin Nombre\u201d or \u201cWithout a Name\u201d. Not necessarily a kid friendly film, but it truly enlightened us and put an image to the book we studied before we left for Honduras, “Enrique\u2019s Journey”. Totally check it out for a great idea of the level of poverty, tragedy, and desperation in Honduras that is almost inescapable.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a slightly sad day as I realize my longest visit is coming to an end \u2013 and the movie wasn\u2019t a happy one either. I have mixed feelings right about now and I don\u2019t really know where to continue.<\/p>\n

Honduras observations
\n1. Connections mean more than words can express
\n2. Kids have a way of finding your heart and staying there<\/p>\n

Laugh and live fearlessly,
\n-Alyssa Cable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks 29 days left. Less than a month in Honduras and less than 3 days left in Copan. What? It\u2019s hard \u2013 and you can tell the group is feeling it too. We are just simply missing home. The realization of the actual length of 6 weeks has hit and it\u2019s starting to cause … Continue reading A sad day: preparing to say goodbye<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honduras-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}