Hey, I’m Trisha. After two months here in La Unión, I’ve realized that I’m destined to be a really obnoxious mother.
For one, I’m pretty sure that I’ll still have the fresh sweat of labor on my forehead when I snap the first of millions of baby photos. My poor kid will see camera flash before sunlight. And for the rest of his life, his every move will be captured – from various angles, in various lighting – by proud, obnoxious me.
I haven’t been able to put my camera down while in Honduras. I feel like I have got the new-mother bug: tireless, never jaded, convinced that sneezing is a Canon-worthy accomplishment. Consequently, I racked up a total of 412 photos in six hours at the last loan distribution session. Just to do the math that is about 69 per hour, more than one a minute.
But you know what? I think mothers are incredulous, more than anything, stunned. They think to themselves, yes I produced a kid; yes, this kid has fingers; yes, she can gurgle, cartwheel, graduate from college, produce a child herself.
This is where I liken what my thoughts and actions might be as a first time mother to our work in Honduras. Just like a mother who is awed and cares tremendously for their first child, we also here in Honduras have learned to imagine, plan, prepare, work out kinks, and get ready. But, now to see it all unfold – to see a man in a sombrero present his pagaré, carefully scrawl a signature, shake our hands, and load a bag of coffee fertilizer onto his mule – gives to us all the pleasant motherly chills. We were all incredulous. I had to take pictures.
Every part of our operations feels that way to me: yes, UMF can; yes, UMF did. When I go through my photos at the end of this trip, I’ll sift through the hundreds of farmers eyeing this weird gringo setup, signing loans, shaking hands, lounging around in a coffee warehouse on bags of newly loaned fertilizer, loading fertilizer onto the shoulders of farmers and their children, mules, horses, motorcycles and trucks, people caught mid-gesture in classrooms during training sessions, hiking though coffee fields with knapsacks during training sessions, people laughing at the girl with the camera, people hiding from the girl with the camera, hacking at things with machetes…the list goes on an it is incredible
I won’t delete any of them, not even the blurry ones. And, I might make a scrapbook.
Best to All,
Trisha Jain
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Trisha is an intern for UMF. She will be a sophomore at the University of Michigan this fall. After a trip to Honduras with UMF in March 2010, she asked the organization if she could return for the summer. She paid her entire way. Thank you Trisha
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