siempre anda por la veinte

Before going on this retreat I mentioned in the previous post, Kate found a t-shirt that had phrases said in Honduras on it. She took a picture of it in hopes of learning what they meant at some point. Well, we ended up taking two cars filled with people to the retreat and so Kate spent the way there learning what they meant from our new friend and teacher, Jansen. Also, he may have been our driver the whole week because Kate hates driving her manual car for longer than ten minutes. He never knew what he was committing to by becoming our friend.

Anyways, turns out, we found a phrase that defines Kate perfectly. "anda por la veinte" is the Spanish version of "out in left field" and let me tell you, that is Kate. She is willing to admit it too, no worries. In fact, she admitted it within the first minute of learning the phrase. However, we both equally defined it when it came to our sense of direction in San Pedro. I'll give you an example:

One night, Kate was forced to drive her own car home because Jansen was going to his hotel. And we had no one to follow because Shannon had left early. It was the perfect storm. We left the church chatting and laughing about different things that passed throughout the day, until we both grew silent in thought at the same time. I knew we were both thinking, "hm, I don't recognize this road very much". We sat for a while until finally Kate declared us lost. Many roads, tear of laughter, and ten minutes later, we were back in the church parking lot, scrunched down in our seats with hopes that Jansen wouldn't see how pathetic we were. I wish I could say I kept my cool while we were lost, but truth is I was terrified. Up until Kate stalled out on a speed bump, then it was just plain hilarious. After picking up some randos from the church from Teguc who directed us to the main road, we were on our way........until we got to the neighborhood of the hotel.

The problem I think is that we realize we don't know where we are going at the exact same time and so there are no warnings. We are 100% confident until we have zero idea where we are. So, it takes a good amount of wrong turns. But, I think I can say with confidence that Jesus performed a miracle that night. Because we were again terribly lost in the neighborhood, until we were somehow directly in front of the hotel. With literally no idea as to how we got there. So yes, when it came to directions, we certainly define the phrase, "anda por la veinte"

Unfortunately, I think thats the only phrase we can use of the new ones we learned because turns out, we were taught what they meant. But, we were not taught which ones were appropriate. So, after Kate used a couple of them to the wrong people at the wrong time and received the wrong reaction, we might have to stick to what we know and risk sounding a little too gringa.