
Here is a picture of the inside of the alcaldia I will be working with. I went ther
e and met all of the staff and talked at length with the Community Development person about some of the projects they are working on. I got to take a field trip and see one, it was a tilapia farm. The government had given Hondurans funds to build such projects, projects that will create income for impoverished areas. An engineer and a couple of other concerned parties went out to the foot of Pico Bonitio (an unbelievable mountain, yes this is to my south and the Caribbean Sea is to my north, my new home is nestled in the middle, how luck am I!!!!) where a huge pit had been dug and thousands of little guppies were feeding. I didn’t understand a lot of what was said, but the engineer was happy with the progress and would report good things to the government. These are the types of things I am going to be involved with, great stuff. The other person I will be working with is from Canada and she does a lot with kids and health in the community. She has a beautiful home on the beach where I can work, someone pinch me!
As for my third and final host family, they are lovely. My host mother is Maritza, her husband is Don Jose and they have three children living at home, Onoria, Sandy and Oswaldo. Like my host family in Zarabanda I am the first American they have ever hosted (geez that´s a lot of pressure to make us all look good!). They are kind and spend lots of time together which is nice and relaxing. Yesterday for example we sat out in the back of the house and watched as a women tried to get her disobedient pigs to go home with her, they did not want to cooperate. Eventually she got them to go, squealing the whole way but she got em. Onoria works at the alcaldia with me and Sandy and Oswaldo are students. Don Jose works for Standard Fruit Company. They are kind family who I am looking forward to getting to know more.
So what is next? I will continue training until September 26 at which time we will be sworn in as volunteers. From there we will all go to our respective sites for our service. Wow, I have already been here for more than 2 months, it´s hard to believe. Stay posted for more pictures of my site and host family, I wasn´t able to get many on my short visit. Below are some random pics to tide you over. Thanks for checking in with me, I miss you all and think of you often. I will get you my new address just as soon as I figure it out, until then feel free to continue sending letters to the address in the second entry of my blog.
As for my third and final host family, they are lovely. My host mother is Maritza, her husband is Don Jose and they have three children living at home, Onoria, Sandy and Oswaldo. Like my host family in Zarabanda I am the first American they have ever hosted (geez that´s a lot of pressure to make us all look good!). They are kind and spend lots of time together which is nice and relaxing. Yesterday for example we sat out in the back of the house and watched as a women tried to get her disobedient pigs to go home with her, they did not want to cooperate. Eventually she got them to go, squealing the whole way but she got em. Onoria works at the alcaldia with me and Sandy and Oswaldo are students. Don Jose works for Standard Fruit Company. They are kind family who I am looking forward to getting to know more.
So what is next? I will continue training until September 26 at which time we will be sworn in as volunteers. From there we will all go to our respective sites for our service. Wow, I have already been here for more than 2 months, it´s hard to believe. Stay posted for more pictures of my site and host family, I wasn´t able to get many on my short visit. Below are some random pics to tide you over. Thanks for checking in with me, I miss you all and think of you often. I will get you my new address just as soon as I figure it out, until then feel free to continue sending letters to the address in the second entry of my blog.
Here we are the day we found out which sites we were going to. They had a big party for us, it was great! The next one is of fisherman on the Caribbean. There there´s the forest of La Tigra, a mountain we climbed and hiked through a couple weeks ago. The other group picture is us at a birthday party for 2 of the Muni D girls. Finally there is a
picture of my friend Elizabeth who was my roommate the very first night we were in DC. She is from Nashville and we bonded immediately. Her site is in a pine forest so I can´t wait to visit here there.


