Round 2

Here we go again, me trying to make sense of this new life. I’m sitting here under my giant green mosquito net writing this, hoping that tomorrow during our training at the official PC office (which only happens about once a week so we can get shot up with immunizations) that I can get on the wifi network long enough to post this.

We are rapping up week 2 of training. Basically how it works is we have 4 hours of language class then a lunch break where we go home to eat with our families the go back for around another 4 hours of technical training. Come home eat dinner with the host family, and do homework, lately I have been playing a version of scrabble with my host families granddaughter after dinner. Who by the way is my link to what my host mother actually thinks, aka grandma thinks you must eat at a lot restaurants because you hardly eat any of her food and your fat. Ojo to any of you who don’t work with small children, if you say something in front of them they will not hold anything back and will mostly likely tell the person you’re talking smack about. I heard from my teacher today that usually girl volunteers gain weight and male volunteers lose weight (so unfair), I’m not so excited about gaining weight from food I am not really enjoying.

But enough about comida, let’s get to some fun and interesting things. Last weekend some of us went zip lining to celebrate a fellow trainee’s birthday which was fun.  Yeah you heard right I was zip lining through the Honduran rainforest (cost $30). I got to wash all my laundry by hand last weekend too, ufff. My host mother cracked up after she saw my face when I finished. Damn I had no idea HOW blessed I have been to have access to a washing machine all of my life. Seriously the next time you throw a load in think of me be bitten by mosquitoes scrubbing out clothes in a giant cement basin, breaking a sweat with chickens running around me, Peace Corps Honduras baby!   

I am soooooo pumped because we are going to go to see Harry Potter on Saturday. Ahhhhhhh, bitter sweet, I can’t believe this is the end L This is huge, a special treat. We are a much smaller group than normal, 15 strong. Most groups are about 50, but do to budget cuts reduced group size, feel free to contact your fave politician about this and ask them to bump up the PC budget. Because we are smaller than normal, we have gotten to do some special stuff like go to the museum of national identity which was really interesting, and hopefully see Harry!

I got to observe in some schools which was really interesting and met with some local youth. More on all those details soon, and more interesting stuff like new bug discoveries, pics and Honduran legends.

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Em