Man, where to begin? So training for Peace Corps in September and I got assigned to live in San Lucas in the department of El Paraiso in Honduras. The country has 18 different departments, and mine is in southeastern Honduras, close to the Nicaraguan border. San Lucas is a little smaller than the average for a Youth Development site, it has about 2,000 residents in the heart of the pueblo, but there are a lot of surrounding villages, so in total there about 6,000 people in the municipality. The surrounding villages and fairly far away, most about an hours walk. I´m still living with a host family because there isn´t any available housing, but this host family is actually really great. I´ve always had good luck with my host families...except with the doña in the D.R.,
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