Yesterday I went drinking with Chris and Carlos. Trips like these are defined by the people you're with almost more than the things you do, so I thought I'd give you the Shakesperian synopsis.
Chris - our fearless trip leader on HFH number 20. He's the guy who interviewed me while he was at an airport making a connection to Nicaragua and I had 5 people coming over in 15 mins for a roast chicken that was nowhere near done. He got into it as a writer because he was writing a book on habitat. He's a former dead head connecticut dad of 3 and level headed enough to see the important things in all this. His best line was saying we're the ones learning from you all how to be a community. Humjibre is one of those places where kids can roam free cause everyone knows them and will protect them. It's kind of wonderful.
Carlos & Diana - From Chihuaua. I've only really talked to Carlos. He's doing an MBA at Northwestern and spent a month in Africa in 2010 doing world cup and 3 safaris. Loves his soccer and nFL but said he didn't care about women's world cup cause 'women shouldn't play soccer'. May be the best traveled of everyone here though. And as soon as the inoculations have run their course plans on knocking up Diana with twins. Seriously.
Ed - real estate MBA from Wharton that works for Bain and lives in Chicago. He's part of my crew at the awesome house that has since disbanded so everyone can share in the awesomeness of our head mason Mark (aka, kcs boyfriend). I still have no idea what makes this dude tick but he seems to like beer, can smooth plaster like nobodys business and did a trip with Chris before.
Gerhard - the super friendly Vietnamese guy who never is quiet. He's basically Bill Clinton. He's friends with everyone in the hotel and work site and needs you to be friends with him. He also is the only other person who other than Atul who has a lower comparative fun scale (CFS) threshold than I. CFS is a new measuring tool for fun seekers recently invented. It means in your head, your constantly weighing if something else is more fun than what you're currently doing. Your threshold determines whether you go and do that or stick it out with whatever fun you're having right now. I have a pretty low threshold, as anyone who has a conversation with me knows when I only can spend half a conversation looking at you cause some lizard/child/dirigible just bolted across the room next to you and clearly that's more fun to look at than you talking.
Anyway, if mine's a 20/100, Gerhards may be a 2. He's an ADhD billboard.
KC does a great impression of him that sounds like the dog from Pixar's 'Up'.
Alright, my thumbs are tired. And my body. Holy crap we moved a lot of brick.
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