Making Purses

Today Rodrigo and I made purses with our team and its fearless leader, El Boludo. The women of Siete de Abril make handbags woven tightly out of discarded plastic wrappers folded over shreds of newspaper. The result is an ingenious and handsome product made 100% out of post-consumer product. I got one for my mother, whose birthday is today. (Feliz Cumpleanyos, Mama.)

Dan keeps us laughing with his preoccupation that (despite wearing a cowboy hat...!) he is readily identifiable as a 'gringo'. His goal is to be completely inconspicuous in a few weeks. Some of his solutions include not wearing both a hat and sunglasses at the same time, and wearing jeans, since virtually none of the Honduran men wear shorts.