A couple of men in my community approached me with the interest of making a tree nursery for reforestation. I thought it was a great idea and was excited there were people interested in doing it so I immediately began organizing people and resources to make the idea come to life. I found an older [...]
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It was a hot summer day with little to do. In our shared fondness for animals, my host mom and I have a variety of pets and this day the kids and I noticed that there were many different kinds of baby animals about. We began to wonder, through our random conversations, in the case [...]
One morning as I was selecting the day’s clothes I discovered a bat cozying up in one of my t-shirts. His tiny nails clung to the fabric and his little face was buried in to hide from the light. I took him outside and hung him in a tree where he stayed for a minute [...]
I was sitting in the living room in the evening hour when I heard a commotion outside. I went to investigate and I found a group of young guys surrounding a tree, hooting and shouting. Up in the branches there was a furry animal with a large tail. I don’t know exactly what it was [...]
I was sitting inside my host-family’s house one day when a girl outside shouted “Snake!”and began to scream. My host mom shouted, “Snake? ANGIE! Come here!” Why she called my name I don’t know because I’m the only one who would actually be opposed to the death of the innocent creature whereas she was looking [...]
I was working in the office of the local youth center one day and the director of the center came in surrounded by a few children and with a small girl in her arms. The girl was not one that I recognized and she had big brown eyes and wore a simple blue dress. The [...]
I once went to my community counterpart’s house to visit and they offered me a bowl of soup. I asked what kind of soup it was and they told me it had pork meat in it. They served me a bowl and my counterpart laughed and said, “No actually its armadillo.” My counterpart loves to [...]
A couple of men in my community approached me with the interest of making a tree nursery for reforestation. I thought it was a great idea and was excited there were people interested in doing it so I immediately began organizing people and resources to make the idea come to life. I found an older [...]
So if you have ever wondered what happens to your old school buses once the district decides they are in need of replacing, let me just say that they dont necessarily go into retirement. Most old buses are sent to other countries to be restored for reuse. Many still have the name of the county [...]
The rainy season here generally last for 6 months but only during the last couple of months is when the rain can get really intense. It can go on raining for days at a time without stopping but usually it lets up in the mornings and rains in the afternoons and at night. We wash [...]
At my host family’s house we own several rabbits (which really do breed like the saying goes) but the dogs and theiving hungry kids help keep the population low. We finally constructed a cage for them against a dirt wall so they no longer run free all the time and maybe we will stop losing [...]
August-September. I am continuing to work closely with the bakery group. They are an awesome group of hard workers but motivation is falling as the business continues to struggle for profits. I reassure them that this is common for most new small businesses because we are still establishing our market and products, but it [...]
In the months following the military coup, Honduras continues to struggle to reestablish political stability. The ex-president has not been allowed to return to the country on threats of arrest and imprisonment. He attempted to land once in an airplane but was unable to when the military blocked the landing strip at the airport. [...]
July- After returning from vacations I went straight to work with a group of women who work to raise awareness about domestic violence and women’s health issues. We organized an information fair event where we had doctors, nurses, women from several communities, and other Peace Corps volunteers come in and present various topics that [...]
End of June- So three days after the bakery decided to open I was scheduled to leave for the States on vacation to spend some time with my friends and family. I was a little bit worried about the group because starting a small business is difficult and I didn’t want to abandon them [...]
Since mid-June I have been working with a group of women and youths on a small business project. The women are all mostly single mothers with very little means of income to support their families and the youths are teenage boys and girls building their skill levels and work experience for future careers. Within this [...]
May- The grounds shook, roofs rattled, and structures trembled as a 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern Honduras and shivered through the country. Along the northern coast, houses fell and people stumbled out onto the streets in groggy confusion. It was after midnight. In the southern zone the effect was buffered and [...]
When you were just a child, what did you dream of? Do you remember how you saw the world? Do you still carry the memory of how you envisioned yourself? What career held your passion when you were still so young and the whole world was possible. What image pressed your mind when the words [...]
Strolling on a path one day I began to climb a hill to a house. A strange sound sighed through the air and wandered into my ears. It was like a low whistling of the wind vibrating through the air. A crooning that inflated and died like the gusts of a playful breeze. Cresting the [...]
School. It runs from 8am to 1pm during the weekdays. In between breaks children receive about 4 to 4½ hours of classes everyday, as long as there is not a holiday, teacher strike, or other meeting or event to cut the day short or cancel it altogether. The high school graduation rate is low. Students [...]
Nature, the environment. It is all around us, twisted and entwined in every aspect of our lives. It is the wind blowing through the trees and tickling your skin with a fresh cool breeze. It is the soil, soft and moist, and brimming with a thousand lives beneath your feet. It trickles down from above [...]
I am sitting in the window seat of a bus. It is late morning and the sun beating down, reflecting off the concrete and creating an oven-like atmosphere. It is an average day of the week and I am early so I must wait for some time until the bus will depart. The streets are [...]
What happens when all the lights go out? When the electricity fades away and the darkness seeps into every corner of your world? The land falls silent, movement ceases, and you stare up in awe at a world that has existed since beyond the ages but is now near forgotten in the progressing fluorescence of [...]
Well its official. I have been in Honduras for over 7 months and have completed one fourth of my 27 month term of service here. Granted three months of that time I was in training, but the time duration remains as such. Where the rest of the time went I do not [...]
Happy New Year! It’s the year 2009. Wow, where has the time gone? I remember back when the song ‘Party Like it’s 1999′ first came out. It seems like that was only just a few years ago but a decade has gone past. My entire life only consists of just a [...]
It’s back in the early times, when the land of America was still wild. Adventurous travelers looking for new places to call home wandered across the landscape. Others, already residing in the area, watched defensively as the immigrants continued to spread. Who really had the rights to claim or to share the [...]
Take the hot, dusty, rainy climate of Honduras, the rugged lifestyle of a Peace Corps Protected Areas Management Volunteer, and portable technology meant for gentler conditions and lock them all in the same room for six months. When you open the door you may find that a small disaster has occurred, as between a [...]
Alright, just so you all know, I am still alive here in Honduras. I know it has been a few months since I have upated but I have been so busy and my computer broke and my harddrive is unreliable so that disrupted my writing medium as I only have very limited amounts of computer [...]
It begins with the matter that it is, it becomes recognizable as an observation, it takes form as a suggestion, then sparks with an idea, sprouts with taken interest, and grows with the motivation to back it up. Thus started my first project that I will take on with the community. I noticed some people [...]
Hola, me llamo Angela y soy una voluntaria del Cuerpo de Paz. (Hello, my name is Angela and I am a Peace Corps Volunteer). This is how I began. Meeting after meeting, house after house, person after person. Here I am, this is what I am here for, and this is what I will try [...]
So I have come to realize the incredible amount of trust I have to have in people in a country where I have been told to take very good caution in whom I trust. I left my home to go to Washington DC and meet people from an organization I only superficially know and they [...]
Time is moving at a pace a little faster than me right now so I haven’t been able to keep up on everything and sadly had to sacrifice a few of the ‘extras’ so I could keep everything else moving. Thus is my excuse for not writing so long and I apologize to those who [...]
We are counting down the final days of training here. It has been an intensive 2 ½ months and I have learned more than my tired mind cares to remember. My Spanish has improved dramatically in this short period. I went from barely being able to communicate or understand anything more than simple phrases and [...]
I have officially been placed at a site! Yay! I got to visit it for a few days and it was awesome! It’s a small community of about 1200 in a southern mountainous region. It gets hot during the day but nothing too bad or uncomfortable. There are many fruit trees there such as mangos, [...]
Our final week at our field based training site we decided to have a goodbye fiesta for our host families as a thank you for housing us for 5 weeks. We bought a lot of food, prepared songs to sing, practiced a swing dance, and created a slideshow. Unfortunately, four hours before the event we [...]
Our world is a busy place, cars are honking their way across busy cities, bicycles are running here and there, people are negotiating prices and meeting times, and cell phones are ringing off the hook. Keeping up with the pace of life is essential lest you get left behind and miss an important meeting or [...]
What is the ultimate goal in life for people? What is it that a person really wants and will spend their entire life seeking after? To be happy? Is it the desire for happiness that drives people to work long hours during the day to earn that extra bit of income? Is this what we [...]
Trees are quieter in the places I have been here in Honduras. There is something missing that was so common back in Minnesota. Those familiar little faces that were always on the lookout with their bright eyes and bushy tails. They would often be seen hopping from tree to tree, scuttling up and down trunks [...]
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