Morazan, Yoro

Sorry that it has been so long since my last time I updated my site. My life has been a complete rollercoaster the last few weeks. So I´m going to start with where I left off!!

The tenth week of training we recieved our sites and I have been assigned to Morazan, Yora in the the northern part of Honduras. I went on my site visit Thursday 26 -Saturday 28. It was a bit overwhelming but a good chance to see a glimpse into my life for the next 2 years. After the site visits everyone returned to Santa Lucia for a closing of training. We all had to go through the immigration process and recieved our resident cards, we had our final spanish interviews and just reconnected with the other 2 groups. It was great to get a chance to catch up and hear all of the different stories people had to share. On Thursday the 3rd was the swearing in ceremony at the U.S. Embassy and after we all went to the Ambassador´s house to swim in his pool. All in all it was a good day with the exception that I lost my cell phone at the Embassy and had to go and buy another one. I talked with the ambassador after the ceremony and found out that he is from Dayton, Oh which I thought was very interesting. Me and my friend Molly ended up eating lunch with him and his wife just talking about the states and Honduras, it was nice to be able to talk to someone that was familiar with the area.

On Friday all of us began our journey to our sites. A few of us made a pit stop in the capitol for the night and than traveled on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon I arrived at my site. Since than my emotions have definately been up and down. My main counterpart here is World Vision and the Health Center. With World Vision I am going to be working in the promotion of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, honestly I am not sure as of now what that entails. Next Monday I am going to the health center to talk with them about what I can do to help them. Yesterday I walked around the town to know it a bit better and I also went to the local high school and saught out a teacher that can help me even more with my spanish. I am going back today so we can talk more today and set something up. I also went in search of a place to rent for myself. I came across one house but I am going to continue to look before I make my decision. I am not allowed to live on my own for 2 months so I have to time and I need to buy everything to furnish the house so I need to be very wise with my money!!

I think you are all up to date now!! I am going to make a serious effort to do better from here on out. I have access to computers in my office so it should be easier from here on out. Thank you so much to everyone that has sent me emails I love recieving messages. I am sorry that sometimes I can not respond to each message individually but I want you all to know that I am reading each and every one. Thank you all so much for your support and make sure that you continue to keep me updated.

By the way I have yet to recieve any type of package or letter in the mail. I am very dissappointed in you all!!! J/K.