Winnie the Pooh never said there'd be days like this...

So guess who spent yesterday morning happily stealing honey away from millions of angry little bitches... until they decided to turn on him. I'll give you a hint. His right hand looks like it spent the past month at an all you can eat chinese buffet. Picture Sebastian the crab from the Little Mermaid. Or the giant marshmallow dude from Ghostbusters. But it was worth it.



Here are the guys pulling out the bee colonies. By the way, while I was crying in the corner about my three little bee stings, these guys were literally getting stung over 20 times. And laughing about it. Res-pec! (...said in an Ali G voice)



My buddy Carlos cutting off the honeycombs



The whirly-gig machine doing what whirly-gig machines do...
whirl. gig.



Me and Carlos with one of the colonies



So I got a marshmallow hand for the week, but on the bright side, I can check off another item on my life list. So there ya go. And now I have a legitimate medical reason to take 4 benadryls a night and pass out at 8 pm.

Inauguration day

Sort of an extra special day for those living outside the states. Guess I can only speak for myself, but watching the inauguration, naturally you’re forced to think about where you are, what you’re doing, why you’re here. All the things you generally don’t stop to think about. Seems we just get so caught up in our day to day lives here that you rarely take a minute to really think about things.

So today served as that reminder. That I’m working. And that I'm serving my country. (Cue patriotic music.) Serving the country that I criticize and mock so much. And will continue to criticize and mock to my dying days. But that same country is paying me to live in central america, to learn how to harvest beans and corn, to play checkers with my community's drunks, to eat and sleep and learn and just be here.

Hearing Obama take his oath of office, and seeing that ridiculous ribbon on Aretha Franklin’s head, and watching all the salvos watch it with me in that coffeeshop just made me proud to be an american. Even if it lasted for only a few moments.

Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.