Christina
Christina Mueller Joined: January 20th 2005
Logged in: July 3rd 2007
Logged in: July 3rd 2007
Travel Blog Posts
switzerland
For the past 10 years I have been a traveling fool:) However, my ultimate dream trip, backpacking through Europe, was always on the horizon.. was always on my mind, yet it had never become a reality for some reason or another. I had begun to believe that it was something I needed to let go, and that my previous 10 day stint in Spain was all that I was going to have in terms of a European backpacking adventure. I tried as hard as I could to put it to the back of my mind, for I was just coming back from teaching in Honduras, and as a good hardworking American girl, needed to find a job, buy a house, and get married and have kids. Yes, become the ALL--AMERICAN soccer mom... that is a worthy ... read more
halls "mints"
I believe that there is a conspiracy going on between the pharmaseutical companies (like the ones manufacturing cough drops)and the restaurants throughout the San Pedro area. Actually, it is an even larger conspiracy, for the people of San Pedro are using them for the same purpose. If one would venture to the United States, and he or she would enter a restaurant like Applebees, at the end of the meal, he or she would be given a peppermint breathmint. Some of the restaurants even give out ANDES chocolate mints. In Honduras, however, I have discovered that there is a different treat for your after dinner mint. In the US we generally ask for a Halls when we are sick with a cold, or have a sore throat. Here in Honduras, the people use the Hall's cough ... read more
Emily
I have been a teacher for six years, and every year I love it even more than the previous year. For the past few years I have been teaching English as a Second Language at an elementary school in Des Moines, Iowa. Over 80 percent of my students were Spanish speakers, and I had the opportunity to work with the families of these students as well as with the students themselves and the community. When an opportunity to teach in Honduras I came up, I jumped at it. I flew down to San Pedro Sula to originally teach first grade, however, upon arrival, I was informed that I would be teaching kindergarten. I was also told that my students would be fluent in English. The first day of classes, however, I discovered that the word fluent ... read more
