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845 days ago
Hi all! Well it has been a few months since I last sent out a group email… Things here are really great! I moved into my house at the beginning of July and am living with another volunteer, Molly. We get along great and I couldn’t ask for a better friend or roommate. I spent the first three months in site getting to know the community and practice my Spanish…..but now things are really taking off work wise. Me and Kate (business volunteer) have been giving HIV charlas to the colegio (high school students) and have trained all of the 7 th and 9 th graders at one high school….Also, something big with Peace Corps is the idea of sustainability so our project manager really encourages doing TOT’s (Training of Trainers) which is basically a 3 days workshop, where the 1 st day you do all the HIV activities with them (4 hours), then the 2 nd day they get into groups and make all of the materials, and the 3 rd day the groups replicate the 4 hour ...
909 days ago
Hi everyone! Well I have now been in my new home for almost a month. Things so far have been really great! I really love it here.....everything...the people, the town, my work. I have been spending the last few weeks meeting all my counterparts, learning Spanish, and getting to know my way around the community. Another volunteer who is in the Protected Areas Management project, Molly, got a site change to my city last week. She has been here for almost a year now. She is great and we have become really good friends! We are going to live together in a month when I move out of my host family´s house. She is going to work in promoting ecotourism with Celeque National Park, but she wants to go to Med School when she gets home so we are excited to do some health projects together. Last week Kate (married, business volunteer living in here) and I did our first AIDS workshop together at a colegio (highschool) with 38 students. It went really great! The thing with ¨charlas¨here ...
933 days ago
Hey alll! I know it has been awhile now since I have written...things have been really busy. BUT I am now officially a Peace Corps Volunteer! We went back to our first training site last week for 4 days to get a little more training, get our residency cards etc and then on Thursday was our swearing in ceremony at the US embassy. After the ceremony we all went to the Ambassador´s house to swim, play tennis, and celebrate! Well now here come the good part...where I am going to live for 2 years and what I will be doing..... So my site placement is in the west! It is actually a site that I have wanted from the beginning. It is a moderately sized city with about 15,000 people. It is located in a valley at the foot of Mount Celaque (the highest point in Honduras....some of the best hiking here!) Also there are suppose to be really beautiful Agua Thermales here...which are natural pools flowing from the mountains so I am excited to go there! The temperature here is ...
959 days ago
Hey all, So earlier I didn't get a chance to send my email with my pictures. This last week in Honduras was Semana Santa. It is the one week during the year where everyone takes vacation from work and relaxes. We had classes up until Wednesday afternoon and then we had the rest of the week off. We weren't allowed to travel outside our site but just having the time to relax was much needed. Being in training and classes 8 hours a day really wears us out...so Semana Santa came at the perfect time during training! My friend Raphael lives with an amazing family (its the house I had Spanish classes in the first 3 weeks, the mom who gives me eggplant, and I am good friends with the four sons)....well this family has an uncle who lives 10 minutes outside our site...he owns 80% of the land that the US military base is on here so he is doing pretty well..he has a beautiful house with a pool that he invited all of us volunteers to on Wednesday and we went again Sunday for ...
