Sweaty mcbetty
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Cofradia, Cortés, Honduras
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Weather is really humid, upwards of 30degrees on a normal day with very little rain at the moment. Lightning storms are very frequent although mainly confined to the mountains surrounding us, but they light up the sky at night, which is pretty cool.
We were met by Ben who owns the school. He's a cool guy in his 50's who likes to smoke and swear a lot! But then he is Australian... We drove through the City of San Pedro Sula where we collected some of the other volunteers (Carla, Amy, Al and Kevin).
The house is pretty basic as you can see from the pics. In fact I think the pics make it looker slightly more comfortable than it is! It doesn't show up the ants, dust, geckos etc. but we're getting used to it bit by bit. It took me ALOT of searching but eventually I found the only bottle of bathroom cleaner in the supermarket this morning which made the bathroom a much nicer place to be. But still not somewhee to dwell!
We're actually still feeling really well, and speaking to Carla (who has been here for over 2 years) illness is not a big problem so that's good. It's my first attempt cooking beans tonight. You have to sort through them first and pic out all the stones and bad beans. It takes a long time but is suprisingly therapeutic.....good bean, bad bean, good bean, bad bean ....
We went to the school yesterday. It's really cute and the walk to school is beautiful as the town is surrounded by hills covered in rainforest. We'll post some photos when we are able to. You can climb on top of one of the classrooms because the original plan was to build a second story but it didn't quite materialise. This is becoming a common theme of our honduran experience...things dont work and projects don't get finished! We'll also post some pics of the town. It's very small but pretty in the centre. They recently paved the roads in the middle of the town but before that they were all totally torn out and covered in trenches and rubble. That's what our street is like! When you see roads like that you really start to realise just how poor the area is, and how far away we are from the developed world.
Enough rambling for today as we're going swimming in the rocks pool with some of the other teachers in the town, and then settling down to an afternoon game of scrabble!
Becky and Musa
Comments
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, absolutely amazing! Believe it or not, I'm actually incredibly jealous; you're so lucky! Enjoy every single moment and every single ant. x
Cockroachs definitely bad (but geckos are so cute)!!! all looks really good and cosy....in a way...i know what sam means about jealously! hope you are both having lots of fun, is really nice reading what you are up to, keep us posted xxxx
Great to hear that you're settling down and finding new friends among the insects etc. The School and the guy who set it up, sound amazing. You're doing a great thing, joining this project. Keep it up and enjoy life in its (almost) simplest form.
PS. Do you want us to send you emergency supplies of Domestos?!!!
Hi Musa and Beccy,
so glad you have arrived safe and well, so your wanting some supplies sending over? beans with sausage or just beans with beans.
Weather, well we have your share of that shitty rain but i guess your not missing that. Well its a whole new way of life for you both and im sure its going to be just great. Rooms loook fine and you got an amazing chess floor.
love to you both
Val xx
Great to see your pics!! - looks really homely and about to get a whole lot homelier, I'll bet. You are transmitting your excitement to us back home - it's like we are part of the adventure - brilliant! We will look forward to every entry on this blog. In the meantime, have a wonderful time getting to know all your new friends - and of course the children.
Love M, D, C and R. xxxx
PS: Beans? Can't wait to get over there and visit you. I can give you quite a few tips on how to serve them. (Dad wrote that.)