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Happy St. Patty´s Day!!! and HOYA SAXA!!!! (let´s hope they´ll beat BC)
I´m leaving Santa Lucía tomorrow for field-based training with the business project. We´ll be staying six weeks in a town closeby called Cantarranas.... apparently very similar to Santa Lucía except it´s smaller, there´s less to do and there´s no internet. I probably won´t write in this blog for awhile as a result. I promise to upload pictures very soon.
Here are a few musings on Santa Lucía and my life in Honduras thus far:
-Education here is so different. My host brothers would bring home tareas every night consisting of one of the following: cut out things from magazines (like big and small, or people in the community, or words like "Abuelita" and "Paco") and paste them in your notebook; copy the letter W a million times; write these terms down and look them up in the dictionary; translate 60 English vocab words such as window, hers, them, date stamp, breakfast cereal. wtf?!
-There is an elderly man that makes tortillas in our family´s fogón (outdoor fireplace), I pass by him every evening on the way to my room, I´ve had entire conversations with him and I still don´t know who he is. Sometimes the family gives him money for various reasons... maybe for the tortillas?? Who is this man???
-At the volunteer´s house I visited in La Paz, they have cable including several US channels, but since many of these channels are pirated they change from week to week. One day it could be ESPN2, another day NBC broadcast out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Entertaining!
-Our next-door neighbor has peacocks. Have you ever heard a peacock?? They´re the loudest little bastards on the planet.
-I went to get my ingredients for Irish bread yesterday, and bought 6 packs of raisins. I later noticed that little winged insects were crawling around in the raisin packets. We put the raisins in a bowl, cleaned them up and used them anyway. The bread was delicious!
Cantarranas here I come!
I´m leaving Santa Lucía tomorrow for field-based training with the business project. We´ll be staying six weeks in a town closeby called Cantarranas.... apparently very similar to Santa Lucía except it´s smaller, there´s less to do and there´s no internet. I probably won´t write in this blog for awhile as a result. I promise to upload pictures very soon.
Here are a few musings on Santa Lucía and my life in Honduras thus far:
-Education here is so different. My host brothers would bring home tareas every night consisting of one of the following: cut out things from magazines (like big and small, or people in the community, or words like "Abuelita" and "Paco") and paste them in your notebook; copy the letter W a million times; write these terms down and look them up in the dictionary; translate 60 English vocab words such as window, hers, them, date stamp, breakfast cereal. wtf?!
-There is an elderly man that makes tortillas in our family´s fogón (outdoor fireplace), I pass by him every evening on the way to my room, I´ve had entire conversations with him and I still don´t know who he is. Sometimes the family gives him money for various reasons... maybe for the tortillas?? Who is this man???
-At the volunteer´s house I visited in La Paz, they have cable including several US channels, but since many of these channels are pirated they change from week to week. One day it could be ESPN2, another day NBC broadcast out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Entertaining!
-Our next-door neighbor has peacocks. Have you ever heard a peacock?? They´re the loudest little bastards on the planet.
-I went to get my ingredients for Irish bread yesterday, and bought 6 packs of raisins. I later noticed that little winged insects were crawling around in the raisin packets. We put the raisins in a bowl, cleaned them up and used them anyway. The bread was delicious!
Cantarranas here I come!
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