Copan Ruinas

Well! It has been quite the week of exciting events. It feels like such a blur to me! On Tuesday, I woke up and found that my pajamas were stuck to my leg wound. I unstuck my pants and saw that my scrape had turned into a full-blown infection. It was seriously the most severe infection I have ever seen in real life…my scrape was just white pus that had hardened to my leg. To make matters worse, every neighbor who saw it that morning gasped and asked me what had happened, and made sure to tell me that it was infected.

When I arrived at school, I asked the principals what I should do about it. The secretary, who is such a sweet lady, offered to clean it for me. It really touched my heart and made me feel bad, but she seriously sat on her knees and cleaned my leg as best as she could. Then she did it again that afternoon, and then again the next day and the next day. It has been incredibly painful, and I’m pretty sure that I’m going to have a fairly nasty scar on my leg. It’s still a little infected, but I bought my own medicine and have been cleaning it out as much as I can. It’s pretty nasty. This photo is about ten days after I fell, so as you can see, it's still pretty bad!



In spite of my oozing leg, we packed up our stuff and headed to Copan, which is a little tourist city that is built around some Mayan ruins, not too far from Gracias. The ruins were so incredible. I kept imagining human sacrifices and the fall of such a massive empire. The ruins were also really fun because we could climb on them! The town of Copan was really cute too, although I started to get a little annoyed at how much it was built for tourists. The expensive souvenirs were all in dollar amounts, and to me, the city felt a bit contrived. It was just too cute to be real! I still really liked it though. :)



We also went up to a bird sanctuary in Copan, which was so much fun! We saw all sorts of birds, some native to Honduras. There were all sorts of colorful parrots, as well as hawks and other birds. To be honest, I'm actually not all that into birds but these ones were really beautiful. I was also really excited when our tour guide stuck three of the parrots on my arms and shoulder! I couldn't stop giggling, and also being a little scared because he told us that those parrots have 700 lbs of pressure in their beaks. Crazy!

So anyway, Copan was pretty amazing. It was fun to have a weekend away and to get out of Gracias for a little bit. It's cool that I live by Mayan ruins! My life is cool.