We recently acquired a Nicaraguan "daughter", an international student at Reedley College who will be living with us for nine months! We decided to convert our Peace Corps blog into a blog about our experience with her. Read about our adventures, mishaps, and other funny things that happen throughout this experience.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
So we did go out to eat for our anniversary. We were going to go to the pizza place but it was closing as we got there at 6:00. You never know what is going to be open and when around here it seems. We ended up at this place called Tilapias. They do serve tilapia but neither of us had that. Kevin had fried chicken and fries, which were really good, and Shannon had chips with a bean/cheese sauce in pottery kept warm over hot coals. It is quite common here and tasty. Afterward we split a piece of cherry cheesecake and then a double scoop of strawberry cheesecake ice cream in a waffle cone. Shannon was in her first desfile (parade) Friday. It showcased the different schools and educational agencies in Catacamas. She marched with the district administrative office which is one of her counterparts. The Minister of Education for all of Honduras came and marched with them and then they all got to sit on the stage with him and watch the rest of the parade. Shannon’s name (correctly pronounced for once) was announced numerous times as they marched through the town and she was called “the Peace Corps Representative for the educational system in Catacamas”. It was an all day event and extremely hot and humid…not the best weather for a parade, but fun nonetheless. The ferria in Catacamas ended Saturday but there are still fireworks (in reality just REALLY loud booms) going off all of the time. Shannon hates them. Kevin continues to go to the small mountain town outside of Catacamas to meet more people and find out what he can do to help the people there. It is a slow process but is helping his Spanish.
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Link to Pictures on Facebook
interesting links about Catacamas-Olancho-Honduras
- Kevin's pictures from his trip to La Moskitia
- Trip to Amapala
- Photos around Catacamas
- And the destruction of the alfombras
- photos of more alfombras in Comayagua
- photos of the alfombras in Comayagua
- Photos of La Ceiba and Comayagua during Semana Santa
- photos of Kevins family garden project
- latest photos
- photos of Honduras
- photos of Honduras2
- free texts to us-click on envia tus mensajes desde la web, tu nombre = your name
- One of Shannon's counterparts
- Some Honduran news in English
- Other Peace Corps Honduras blogs
- map of Central America-so you can see where we are
- Climate of Catacamas
- current weather_correct? I dont know
- map of Honduras-not very good
- Satellite image of Honduras
1 comment:
Sounds as if you are settling in -do hope your assignment is so far what you expected. Take care,
Barbara Ellis
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