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, April 21, 2009
Cuevas, cuevas y mas cuevas
Last Friday, we went to visit a cave that Kevin already had visited but had not really explored the inside of. The cave does not have trails or lights inside it which made it a lot more fun to explore with our headlamps. There were three big rooms and one short tunnel in which Shannon supposedly saw a spider and got scared and ran away. She did continue to explore in the cave, just not in any small spaces. There were lots of sparkly rocks and some cool formations. It was the first time that either of us had explored a cave on our own without a guide, and it was awesome! After exploring the cave, we went out and swung on vines Tarzan style. It was really fun and we highly recommend it. We ended up going back the next day because more people wanted to see the cave and it was still awesome. We also had to retrieve the camera case that the cave stole from us. Luckily we got it back, without much of a struggle. This week we have been meeting with a Fullbright Specialist in linguistics who is helping us become great English teachers. This is especially helpful to Kevin as he will be teaching English at the university next semester. Kevin also went on another tour of the University (he learns something new every time) and milked a cow for the first time in his life and tried the fruit of the cashew tree as well as some juice. Not bad. Today, for the second time in 10 days we have enough water pressure to take a shower, without a bucket. Because it has been so dry, there isn't enough water and some days we only have it in the sinks and other days not at all. It is also the season to burn off the dead fields and we could barely see the mountains (that are really, really close)yesterday and today. It is kind of like being back at home but worse. It is also really hot here now and Shannon wants to die 500 times a day. Friday we are going to Isla Del Tigre and Amapala to hang out with other married couples in Peace Corps Honduras. Then to the glorious United States, we can hardly wait to see everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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
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