So I've got just about 2 weeks under my belt here in Talanga, south of Tegucigalpa but in the same department of Francisco Morazan. Classes are still going well, we switch language teachers every 2 weeks so now my class will have a new style to learn from a new teacher which has its pros and cons, but so far so good! With the trash project, my group has started working with a Scout group here in Talanga. It's a boy/girl scout group with kids from around 8 years old to around 16 or so. They do a really great job [View Full Entry]

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So I arrived in Honduras! I started off in Colonial Santa Rita which is a little outskirt of Zarabanda which is outside Tegucigalpa. The weather was so unbelievably cooler than in D.R. and so much more foresty than I would have thought. There were pine trees and mountains basically all around us. I was living with a really great family for a couple of days but now I´m in Talanga. I´m in the same Department of Francisco Morazan that I was in, but maybe about 30 minutes away from Zarabanda. It´s hotter here and a little bit more rural, but still [View Full Entry]

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Still here in Miami...now until Monday, but now we've got White House approval. but in the meantime, here are some D.R. pictures! [View Full Entry]

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SO i'm here at the airport in D.R. flying to miami again. the plan was to go from miami to Honduras TODAY but my flight from santo domingo to miami was delayed, so i'll be spending another night in miami and then on to Honduras tomorrow. We've officially been approved to go to Honduras by the State Department, so pending a civil war, it is for sure that I'm going. i'll be doing another homestay for a while and do my training. I won't officially start Peace Corps until September 26th, any time before that I'm a trainee. D.R. was good, [View Full Entry]

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So things are still going well with el cuerpo de paz! I´ve started spanish classes which has been a little difficult since Dominican spanish is WAY different than spanish I´m used to learning. It´s basically like being thrown into the deep end of the pool, but I´m doing okay. I´m a few levels above where I need to be in order to become a Peace Corps Volunteer, so as long as I stay on top of everything I should be good to go. The bad thing is I´m learning Domincan phrases like ¨tigere¨ and ¨te fuñiste¨which won´t do me any good [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody, so here's the deal. I'm still waiting to hear the official word on Honduras, but for right now I'm in the Dominican Republic until the 22nd of July. I'm living in a host family in Santo Domingo for the first three weeks of training which consists of language/cultural/technical training. After three weeks we're supposed to go to Honduras BUT everything seems to be up in the air right now. Things are going well although it certainly is hot, but for sure that is something to get used to. Hope things are going well with everybody and I'll check in [View Full Entry]

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I was trying to figure out how to tell people the news, and I realized I still had this blog lying around so why not still use it? So I move to Honduras July 1st with Peace Corps! I'm not sure where in Honduras I'll be living, I'll find that out after the first two months of in-country Peace Corps training. I'll be working with Youth Development doing work with at-risk youth; I would love to be in an urban setting, but it's not up to me. Here's some more info about Peace Corps in Honduras and about Youth Development: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc.centralamer [View Full Entry]

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Well, I´ve certainly let the blogging go seriously downhill after Guatemala, and for that I apologize. It would almost be nearly impossible to try to recap everything that´s happened over the past 5 weeks, but I´ll give it a shot. Also my camera sort of stopped working after San Juan del Sur, sorry Uncle Tom, but there is a photo-sharing website in the works, so I´ll make sure to e-mail to people once everybody from the group has contributed. So I moved in with a host family in Batahola, a community of Managua. My family consisted of the mom and dad, [View Full Entry]

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well, i'm in nicaragua! the last time i posted i was wrapping up el salvador and all worked out well. for our last day, we went to the Oscar Romero March celebrating the anniversary of his death which was amazing. It was so interesting because we met up with almost all the people who we had met during our stay from El Salvador. That includes people from the non-profits we met and people from the rural communities. There were thousands of people who were there to remember the life and work of Romero. Again, it just goes to show the unifying [View Full Entry]

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well, let's see, lots to get caught up on: i had my 21st birthday party! we all went out to dinner and then had a little dance party, but as a result i broke my laptop screen, so that's basically why i've gone so long without word, but after countless hours on the phone arguing with dhl in spanish, i was able to take the screen from the customs office. basically each time i had spoken to them they kept on adding new things that they said i needed, which was kind of ridiculous. and it wasn't just something lost in [View Full Entry]

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