Holidays, school and my good friend Toño
As promised, I snapped several pictures of my grandparents’ home town in Honduras. The town had just celebrated their 100th anniversary of being founded so there where streamers all over the place.
People walking about their daily business over unpaved roads, streamers dangling in the wind above their heads.
Because I went over during the Christmas season, my family and I went to Mass at the town’s Cathedral, which is now 100 years old. It was erected whenever the town was founded, and everything grew around it. Here’s a picture.
As you can see, the Cathedral was constructed using a really old colonial Spanish style.
Christmas was fun, we ate pork, told stories and laughed for the entire night. At one point in time there was a huge blackout, so we ended up celebrating the rest of the eve under the light of candles, which was really different and pleasant. About 3 days after Christmas, we drove back to my hometown. Here's a picture I snapped from a hill in town. My country is green and full of life still, and that makes me happy.
My beautiful, mountainous country.
New Year’s Eve had no extraordinary occurrences this year, sadly. I spent the night eating and conversing with family, waiting for the toll of the bells and the burst of the firecrackers to announce the arrival of the New Year. Entertaining, but I was tired that day, so I called it a night shortly after the stroke of midnight.
On a completely unrelated note, I’d like you all to meet my friend Toño (pronounced “to-ni-o). He’s a pretty cool character. He’s worked with cattle all of his life, and through the years has developed a passion for fighting roosters. He has worked for my father for a few years now, but now they’ve had to split ways. It’s sad really.
He agreed to pitch two of his roosters against each other for the sake of me snapping a few pictures. If you’ve never been to a cock fight, you’re missing out. They are awesome.
The Roosters prepare to pounce!
Woo Cock Fight!
A week and some later after the impromptu rooster battle, I flew back to Centenary for yet another semester of interesting, challenging classes. The day I got back was also the first time I got to hold and run a Theta Chi Chapter meeting. It was fun, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I like being President of my Chapter. It is a demanding position, but a very rewarding one too.
Fast forward two weeks, and that brings us to last Friday, when SGA had their spring semester retreat. We went to a camp/conference center in Scottsville, TX in order to reorganize ourselves and set a new list of goals and objectives for the current semester. I’ll be working with the Community Service committee, of which I am co-chair, to help set up the Big Event, a community wide service project that has been put together as a way to commemorate the 100th year of Centenary being in Shreveport. It’s bound to be great, so I hope to see many people there!
Matt Blanchard, Taylor Gruner and me at SGA retreat. Yay SGA!
That’s pretty much it for me. Take care, and come back soon!
Warm regards,
Marco
