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.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Fourth of July and More Updates
President Zelaya was unable to land today as the army blocked all of the runways at the international airports. His plane circled over the airport in Tegucigalpa but finally went to El Salvador instead. There are now a ton (the Venezuelan news station said 200,00 but we don't know if that is true) of pro-Zelaya supporters in Tegucigalpa at the airport. The news reported that the army opened gunfire on the protesters and that two were killed and various others wounded. We now have a curfew starting at 6:30 P.M. which was not announced until about 6:00 P.M. today. Needless to say, there are still a ton of people outside. Things are still calm here in Catacamas. Schools are supposed to resume tomorrow so hopefully life will return to kind of normal again. We are tired of doing nothing. Yesterday we had a Fourth of July party at our house and it was really fun. A ton of people came and we ate some good food, played some beer pong, and hung out. There were no fireworks but it was good to be with other people as we have been cooped up all week.
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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
2 comments:
Guys,
Thank you for your update. It is refreshing to hear news of what's going on down there. I am an RPCV (Honduras 02 - 04, Sabanetas, Marcala, La Paz) and husband to a host country national. I wrote Luis Estrada an email hoping for some insight, but I haven't gotten a response. I hope you get to stay in your sites. Keep posting, and SUERTE!!!
Glad we can be of help! Luis is in the Dominican Republic right now with the new trainees so that is probably why he didn't get back to you. I think he's been pretty busy with all the stuff that's been going on!
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