I am recalling a trip which happened a good few weeks ago in March. For our week off group of us decided to go to the smallest bay island Utila. This time of year in Honduras is known for being chaotic traffic-wise as often Hondurans flock to the North coast for a week in the sun. So we prepared ourselves for a long journey... However the bus ride to La Ceiba was fine! As was the first ferry crossing, it seemed Roatan was the number one attraction out of the 3 Islands. We had decided to rent a house for a [View Full Entry]

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Having spent... what is now a month in Tegucigalpa amongst the busy traffic and tooting horns, alarms.. the list could go on a little... we decided it was necessary, no!, vital, to escape to the beach for a weekend. We (being, Whitney,Joan (Canadian) and Ana'Lui (Ecuadorian) left pretty early Saturday morning to catch a bus from Comayaguela, the supposedly more dangerous part of town, luckily we didnt have to wait long.. as one literally came around the corner, and we hopped on. This journey took 4hours, on a pretty nice bus, compared to the chicken buses! Although i have to say [View Full Entry]

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Time in Honduras works in two zones, Honduran time and English time! (English being on time, Honduran mas o menos! More or less) The two weeks i have been here have certainly tested my perception of time.. the early morning starts, and then the sloww hazy afternoons are something im getting to like. Time at school 630-1 can be fast paced in the class, then you can sit and chat with the teachers, very useful for picking up Spanish. The timetables i eventually received have changed multiple times over the week and turning up at the wrong class has been a [View Full Entry]

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Hola! I have made it...after a veryyy long flight, all the waiting n sleeping on aiport benches was worth it! One of the first things someone mentioned to me was how was your landing... did u know Honduras has the 3rd shortest runway in the world! hehe. I didnt.. perhaps sets a tone of the unexpected suprises you might find in Honduras? I was greeted at arrivals by my co'ordinator Eliza, who took me to the quiet, pretty town of Ville De Angeles, i stayed with another volunteer who is teaching in La Esperanza for a few weeks. We were both [View Full Entry]

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