Hello faithful readers. It is I, Becky, the now Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Yes, I live. Well, a lot of things have happened in the past 6 months that I have basically just not updated on. So I am hoping … Continue reading →

Hello Friends and family and complete strangers who read my blog! Yeah so I guess I am officially one of those people that writes a blog every once in awhile and then puts it off until she gets scolded by family member. I could give you all sorts of reasons but my blogs are long [...]

Okay my dear friends and random readers. I agree. I am officially changing my name to Senora Slackerface McGee. But I PROMISE to put up a blog by Sunday evening. Assuming that the internet goes to work that day. You never know round here….

Hello everyone. Yes, I am still alive in Honduras. My humblest apologies for not writing a blog sooner. I would give you an excuse but I really do not have one. So what have I been doing the past months? Oh well I have been all over the place. I have been nearly as far [...]

Hello all, I realize I haven´t blogged in awhile. I have been mega busy and have been having my usual Honduran adventures.  So, I will post a proper blog soon, but in the mean time I figured those of you that followed my blog would enjoy listening to the podcast La Vida Hondureña. I was [...]

‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the site, Not a creature was stirring (though the bedbugs still bite). The work boots were hung by the pila with care, In hopes that St. Nick would smoosh the spider over there… The gringa was nestled in her foam colchon bed, While visions from malaria meds danced in her head. And host [...]

First of all, I would like to say that I miss Utila like peanut butter misses jelly. Two months without diving is just ridiculous, as I am sure you all understand. I just thought it should be known. Well, it has been an interesting few weeks. I actually am currently swamped with work but knew that [...]

So I am pretty sure that I was hit upside the head with the stupid stick the past few weeks. That or I fell out of the idiot tree and hit every dimwit branch on the way down. It started by a simple conversation that I struck up with my coworkers. “Han visto El Negrito?” I [...]

Well, the thing about writing a blog is that you really should write it consistently enough that people keep reading it. That wasn’t so much of a problem until recently when I started taking off all over the country all the time to do absolutely nothing worthwhile for the Peace Corps, though also discovering that [...]

 Well hello faithful reader! I’m assuming I’m down to just the one. You lucky dawg. To start, I would like to discuss taxi drivers. Now, I know most of you have been to New York or somewhere similar that had absolutely reckless and insane taxi drivers, so stories about crazy taxi drivers are not that interesting. [...]

Fijase que I forgot to mention that I have a couple of new photo albums. Check them out through the link below or on the right. They are called: A Bit of My PC Work My Apartamento Peace Corps Moments Also, I am getting a puppy because: I’m lonely Puppies are cute Helps with safety Will force me to be out in [...]

Hello! LAST TIME IN NERDALICIOUS: This is my town! Non-ferret selling hardware store houses. Giant alien dish. Big stone wheel in the rock laden park. Soccer court with a death defying dropoff. My awesome apartment. The kooks I work with.  THIS TIME IN NERDALICIOUS: Best phrase ever. Two opposing schools. Work!!! Riding in the back of trucks! [...]

Hello all! LAST WEEKS BLOG: Cheese, and peanut butter, and chocolate OH MY! Sister in law and mom in the underwear challenge. PACKAGES ROCK! I plan to post a more substantial blog later in the week, but for now, I would like to introduce you to my town! I also posted this as a separate page (link [...]

Hi all! This is a quickie blog (under the bleachers and behind the school) to say THANKS for the packages I got!!! I got packages from Killakelly and the Mortician, Mom and Dad, Andy and Tara, Jamiesons, and Grandma Carol! I know there are a couple more in the mail from you awesome people but with [...]

IN THIS WEEKS BLOG: Boredom. Gangsta amoebas and Russian mob lettuce. Empty apartments. Electricity provides energy as well as the occasionally buzzy feeling! Bored, whine whine whine. Sweaty pits on the way to the island. Giant toilet spiders. Stop pulling my hair! I’m telling!!!. Awesome sweaty British band song! Well, unfortunately there has been little to [...]

Hey all! Here is a shorter than usual blog because I know you are all concerned about the situation down here, so I jumped the gun in posting a new one. If you didn’t read my post last Friday, here is the synopsis “My apartment is naked. LOKIE is my HOMO. Roaches, leeches, and centipedes keep [...]

Yo yo.  Forgot to tell you that my pics have been updated in pretty much all of my albums. I will probably add more as the internet decides to cooperate…

I got a few comments that my blog was rather lengthy last week. So I decided that I would go ahead and start giving a synopsis of my blogs so that you can skip to the section that you would like to read. For those of you who couldn’t get through last week, here is [...]

One thing I love about Honduras is their really long and complicated acronyms. We keep it simple in the states with things like ATF (which, because of the TV show ALF – another acronym I may note, I thought meant “Alien Task Force” for a long time), FBI, NSA, and KFC. But in Honduras they [...]

One of the guys and two of the women where I work are constantly trying to tell me jokes. I constantly look blankly at them when they get to the punch line. Then they explain the joke and I still don’t get it. Then we all laugh at… well… me. At least they get a [...]

To make up for my slackerness in writing blogs for 2 weeks… HERE IS ANOTHER!!! TWO FOR ONE!!! So I survived my first earthquake last night at 2:30 in the morning. I am very south of the epicenter which was located off of the coast of Roatan so it affected my friends up in the North [...]

Hi all, Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. I didn’t have internet access my last week of training and in the nights my friends and I were hanging out a lot. And then this past week was just kind of weird in a new town and I didn’t find the internet café [...]

Well, this has been a really long week and it is only Tuesday (make that Friday as I still haven’t finished this blog). So figure that one out! Let’s get the news and gushy stuff done right off the bat so we can get down to the humor that is Honduras…. Maybe I should start calling [...]

Well, this has been a really long week and it is only Tuesday (make that Friday as I still haven’t finished this blog). So figure that one out! Let’s get the news and gushy stuff done right off the bat so we can get down to the humor that is Honduras…. Maybe I should start calling [...]

So, I have to be a bit more careful about naming names in my blogs. So just so you know, every name I have ever uttered in this blog has been a big fat lie and really all names have been changed to protect the innocent. And this blog is not based on real life [...]

So I fell out of my hammock today. One may wonder how you can possibly fall out of a hammock after 2 months of hammock laying experience. I honestly have been in a hammock at least 2-3 times per day for the last 2 solid months. But today, I was just cocky in my hammock [...]

Supposedly Facebook will allow me to share pictures with those that do not have an account. Let’s find out. Because it was way easier to upload pics to facebook for some reason… Fun in Honduras: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2770385&id=2065614&l=2dde30c01c Preparing a Tree Nursery: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2770374&id=2065614&l=1a5a55b70c Shit-Dirt Stoves: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2769012&id=2065614&l=d66f814c97 Training Center and Other Fun in Valle de Angeles: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2763627&id=2065614&l=cb639b61e1 Hammock Land, The Rio, and Cultural [...]

I had a good internet connection for about 10 seconds so I threw about 7 pics of the stoves up for you. See link: http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t139/rjwilliams79/

(FYI I posted two blogs at once today. This is the 2nd)   You lucky bunnies get two posts today. I am not so lucky because it is midnight:30 and I am wide awake and thus writing this blog. Today I am not terribly hot, I just simply keep thinking and can’t sleep. This happens occasionally but [...]

So I have pretty much decided that I have regressed back to my teenage years. This isn’t solely because I have acne, hole myself up in my room so I don’t have to talk in Spanish, secretly drink beers on the top floor of a hotel under the surname “Taffy Voorhis,” (first pet, street I [...]

I’m adding this to the post so sorry for those of you who may get two posts in your inbox…. So I went to take my bucket bath the other day and the only bucket that was in the bathroom was the flush bucket. The little bucket for showering was not there. This really bothered me. [...]

So I had this awesome long blog with my whole life story written yesterday. Then the computer I was using died and I did not back up my file like a good little former computer worker. So I get the stupid-gringa award today. So you are getting an abbreviated version that only includes some of my favorite [...]

Is about as delicious as it sounds. It’s the Honduran version of Italian food. I feel like the Hondurans don’t watch nearly enough food-network. Because if they did, they would learn that spaghetti does not include sugar, ketchup, or hotdogs. But never fear my friends, because on very special days they add a dash of [...]

Hello all, So this was quite the interesting week. From this past Sunday until Wednesday morning, I was visiting a volunteer in a town called Teupasenti, or Teupa as they call it here for short. It’s an interesting town that supposedly has about 38,000 people in it. This is in fact, a big fat lie. [...]

So pics load super-mega-expensively slowly.  so I put up a few and hopefully when I am in Pespire I will have better internet and will be ableto put up more. Check out the link on the right or below¨ http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t139/rjwilliams79/

Well hello again. It is I, back with more tales from Hondu 14. So this has been a busy week. So busy that I actually have had to break out my calendar to remember everything we did this  week. So let’s start with last night (and then proceed in no logical order of events). So last night [...]

I have a phone wOOt! Feel free to call me. It will probably be expensive. Check with your phone company first. I will doubtfully call you as it costs me 20 cents per minute. I know this isn´t much but keep in mind that I get about 3 dollars per day…. So when I have enough money [...]

So apparently I AM in fact allowed to tell you where I am located so long as I don´t say something along the lines of ^This guy I work with named thus-and-such is a complete loser and lives in thus-and-such place.^ So I can tell you that at the moment training is in a small [...]

Hola a todos!   Hi all, things have been very fun this week. First off, let´s start with ¨Fun with Language¨ In my language class I kept insisting that the other night I was playing soccer with my hijos. Oh wait, ¨hijos¨= sons…..HERMANOS = brothers…. Oops. Cargar = charge….. Cagar = shit…. Right. Roll those R´s Sorry Gillian (if you [...]

So my host dad brought me into town to see his shop today so I figured I might as well grab the net again while I had the chance. I have to pay 20 lempira per hour which is roughly a dollar. But they only give us 56 lempira per day so keep in mind that [...]

Well hello all! I survived the trip! Actually, it was pretty chaotic. I missed my connection in Atlanta because my flight took off late in Tallahassee. But I got on the next plane and arrived in DC at about noon. Then hopped a shuttle (which a bunch of other volunteers were on) and got [...]

Well, I finally received my staging information for Honduras! The schedule is really rather crazy. Check it out: Feb 24th: 7:45am: Fly out of Tallahassee 11:30am: Arrive in Washington, DC (I will forever remain curious why we are flying up before we fly down rather than flying directly across from Miami…I am assuming budget cuts….) 1:30pm: Check in with Peace [...]

Hola all! So what I know up until now is: Location: Honduras Program: Water & Sanitation Job Title: Educational Extensionist Educator Staging: February 24th, 2009 Training: February 25th, 2009 - May 15th, 2009 in Santa Lucia, Honduras Service: May 16th, 2009 - May 15th, 2011 What I can sort of glean from my paperwork is that it sounds like I will be handling [...]

Hola all! So I have had a lot of people asking me about visitation rules. So here it goes: No visitors during training or first 3 months of service. This means I can have visitors as of around August 15th of 2009 No visitors for the last three months. which would be from around February 15th 2011 until [...]