Blogs from Central, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 6

2 private blogs have gone out now, so if you asked to be receiving them, you should have. If you have not received them, and asked me to, then you should have accepted an invitation and registered with a nickname and such. Let me know if you need me to send the invite again. Happy reading! Thanks for following!... read more

For those who commented on my last blog, saying that they wanted to receive the private blogs as well, I have added you to my private list and apparently invites have gone out. I'm assuming you have to confirm or accept the invite so please do. Also, check your junkmail as it may have been sent there. I am overwhelmed by the support. Thank you SOOOO much to all those who are sharing in my journey. It means a lot!... read more

With the crazy world of blogging and the internet the way it is now, I may be moving to making my posts private entries instead of public entries. Only those people on the list that I allow will be able to see those posts. I would do this for entries about the school or something that I wouldn't want parents of my students to read (personal stories, etc.) For this reason, some of my entries (unless strictly about travel) may be moved to private. If you are someone who reads this blog often and would like to be included in those blogs as well, please post a comment and let me know. Thanks!... read more

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 not that bad temperature wise. SO now we´ve all started Field Based Training. The three groups have split up so instead of being a group of 50, we´re a group of 16 Youth Development volunteers ... read more

Well, I survived my first day at school! Actually, I am feeling great. It's like night and day between the school in Comayagua and this one. We started the day with a LONG introduction of ALL the staff at the school. There are FAR too many names for me to remember (especially because we call all teachers by their last names in front of the students but first names informally)! We had to introduce ourselves and then tell something fun. I mentioned how I would be directing the musical, and already I've had about 4 other teachers approach and offer to help. We're thinking of making it for all 3 schools now - elementary, middle, and secondary! I'm pumped. Today we also had literacy trainers from the U.S. come to do training with the elementary school. ... read more