Disclaimer: Don't read if you're already worried about my safety...

Ok, maybe that title is misleading. Nothing happened (to me).
So I attended my first funeral this morning. I'm not a huge fan. (I mean I guess it was a matter of time...to be 22 and to not have attended a funeral before?) I guess there were like nine people killed in Catacamas this weekend...and when you think that it's a relatively small city, I guess I should have figured one of them would have been related to one of my students. So a lawyer was one of the people murdered, and turns out (I found out this morning) that she was the mom of one of my students. She's in eighth grade and has a 3 year-old sister. So all the high schoolers and middle schoolers and teachers took a school bus to the funeral this morning. Really, really sad. I mean, being killed in an accident is one thing (which would obviously still be horrible), but to be murdered? I mean, what do you say to your student whose mom was just shot? Yikes. Her dad is working in the United States too, so I'm not sure who she'll live with now. So that was really hard. Another of my students said she was across the street and saw one of the other people shot. Craziness. Maybe this is why my students could care less about helping verbs...I'm beginning to think they don't matter myself.
A huge difference I'm beginning to realize between the States and Honduras is this: In the States after something like this, the police would find the murderer. The family would not rest until the murderer was found. Here, no one seems to be concerned with that. The people know justice will never be served. It's awful. Another teacher one time was showing me the big drug lord's house of Catacamas...I was like, if this is common knowledge, why don't the police just get him? Apparently one time a police officer arrested one of the drug lords and the next day they found his head in a park nearby. I guess I wouldn't try to find murderers if I was the police either.
Don't worry though, I'm being careful (although I'm still not sure what that means exactly...my host mom tells me to "take precautions" every time I leave the house...what does she think I'm going to do? Wave my ten dollar cell phone around?).