Today I woke up with a lizard on my face! But in other news, I am now in Catacamas where I will be spending twelve months living and working as a teacher. It's so weird to think this is now my home. But I am certainly not complaining, so far it's great!

So first I'll tell you all about where Katy B and I are staying. From the outside it looks very dull and small, with grey walls, no windows and metal gates. But inside is a very different matter! I could go on forever about how amazing the house is with all its flat screen tvs, colour coordinated rooms and a cute balcony looking over the garden. But I feel bad for how easy it has been made for us here. I thought we'd be living in a mud hut with no shower like some people I know. But the food is lovely as our mother Mery is slowly introducing us to honduran cuisine and they have a maid 24/7 to make sure our rooms are tidy. But it's not all luxury here, we still kind of have to rough it. There's a lot of ants, everywhere! As well as all the other insects of course. The shower only has one temperature... cold. And lastly, it is very noisy. People seem to like their televisions on the highest volume, so we can hear every tv from each house down our road. The animals are the worse though, continuously waking me up at 5 am with cockadoodledoos and angry barking, it's honestly manic! But other than that, it's brill here!

The family are great too! It's just a woman and a man living here at the moment, and they're our temporary mum and dad. The only problem is they speak absolutely no english. So while kate has very impressive spanish conversations with them, im left looking very confused and blank faced. I'm hoping I'll pick up the language quite quickly! My 'mum and dad' have actually given me a new name, Esperanza. It means hope in spanish and I thought they were joking at first, but they have not called me anything other than that so far. But I love it, I might even bring it back to England with me.

Catacamas is quite big and busy with both rural areas and built up shops. The people are less short than in Gracias, but they are just as shocked to see us walking around. It does kind of, in a weird way, feel like we are celebrities, as people wave and smile and even take our photo, which is sooo weird. The children are particularly nice as they look at us in such amazement and often say hello. A very important honduran to help us this year is Ronnie Rodriguez, our project rep and school principle. He's great! He's so laidback and funny, not at all like any head teacher back in England. He even takes the mickey out of our english accents and calls us gringos.

That takes me to the school. This too is very laid back, and looks very cute! We've spent a week there now but the children arrive in another week. So for now we are just decorating the rooms and meeting all the other teachers. I really can't get over how nice everyone is here. I feel as if we've fitted in straight away. We have however been told many times that we should not go out at night and never leave the house alone during the day. Although they tell us nothing serious ever really happens, the sound of gun shots at night is a regular occurence.

Other than the noise and potential gun crime, kate and I are really happy here in Catacamas and count ourselves very lucky with our project, so thanks Project Trust! We are still finding our feet and hope to explore more now its the weekend! But i'll update you as soon as the ninos come along! Right now Kate has fallen asleep on my bed after watching most of freaky friday, so I need to go and kick her out!

Missing everyone at home, but bye for now!

Hope

Xxx