Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1931

No we weren't going back to the future, but Livingston does not have any roads connecting it with the rest of the country so we made our way by boat to the town of Rio Dulce. We travelled up the river of the same name which you enter through a steep jungle covered ravine spotted with tiny little Mayan villages where women were doing there washing on the riverbank and men in dori canoes tried to dodge the speedboats whilst doing their fishing. The river has a number of places to stop on route to the town. Our first stop was a Mayan Artisan Village which had beautiful paper mache bowls made from local natural materials like pulped banana leafs and corn husks. We could not afford to send anything else home so we restrained from ... read more

School was basically much of the same today. Although after school, at about 2pm in the hot Honduran sun, I got to play basketball with some other teachers and the principal. It was a ton of fun. However, everytime the principal would knock me over or I would fall down on my own because I'm clumsy, he would stop the game and make sure I was okay. I told him it was fine, keep playing, but I don't think he really got it. If nothing else it was good exercise. After we were done playing, Sarah, Chris, and I took our sweaty selves to the school supply store so I could find bulletin board borders. The closest things that they had were wallpaper boarders for babies' rooms. I opted to make my own boarders from paper. ... read more

After a long morning at Wekso we headed back to Bocas - Tio Tom was full so we stayed in a very cute house in Bocas town called Hotel del Parque, right on the town park. We got a hot shower - which was SO very necessary after Wekso! We both smelled absolutely horrible, and didn't have a stitch of clothing that didn't smell terrible. We washed all our clothes and hung them up, and even after that our clothes - and us - still smelled. I guess that's what a couple of days in the rainforest with no shower can do to you! But it still felt great to feel somewhat clean. We went back for ceviche at the place on the water in town (right next to Hotel Bocas), and then ate at a ... read more

It was bound to happen. To be honest I am surprized it didn't happen sooner. At a soccer game between Honduras and Costa Rica in Comayagua (a rare occasion) I was first asked if I was Eruopean or Gringa... when I learned that, here, Gringa refers only to those from the US, not just any white person. Iwas then asked the inevitable, "Do you like Bush?" Herein lies the reason why Canadians appear so much more patriotic then us gringos... were we to walk around with giant American flags on our packs who knows the dangers we might be putting ourselves in. Very few people like us, and it's getting fewer and fewer everyday. So I guess I'll be a proud Canadian for a while, till some change comes about. ... read more

My computer has been revived from where computers go when they die in Comayagua - the owner of the local Chinese food restaurant. Today after we arrived home from school, we heard a knocking on our door. Nadia went to answer it and was very confused as to who the chinese man was standing in the doorway. As Sarah and I came to look, we realized Mauricio (school administrator) was also there. AND they brought me a fixed computer. I was so excited that I wanted to hug the guy but I don't think he was the hugging type. The other excitement for the day was the kamakazi beetle. We were watching School of Rock in Kari, Jeff, and Chris' house next door and a huge beetle flew in, would hoover and then dive into people's ... read more