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Buenos dias readers! It's my first blog and I'm going to cheat a bit and back track to last week as I've already spent a crazy and jam-packed week in Honduras and there's too much to write in just one blog.
So on the 2nd of August friday morning (feels so long ago now) I said an emotional goodbye to my parents at Heathrow airport and boarded the plane with my 15 fellow hondie volunters. 16 of us were selected from the charity Project Trust to spend 12 months in Honduras teaching in 8 different projects dotted around the country. We had met everyone a month before on the island of Coll, just off of Scotland. It was also there that I met my partner Kate who is going to be my sister for the year, so good luck to her with spending a year with me!
We flew with United Airlines and we were treated like first class passengers with unlimited rounds of drinks and about 3 different meals. We also had an extensive library of films and tv programmes to save us from the tedious journey. After watching The Cinderella story, The Sapphiers, and several episodes of Friends (my fave) we arrived in Houston. The journey from here wasn't as exciting. We couldn't really appreciate being in Texas as we spent the four hours inbetween flights waiting to board our plane to Honduras. The plane was much more familiar to me, looking like a regular easy jet plane, but with the slight difference that it was full of Honduran people who mostly didn't speak English. This was exciting for me as I was sat next to a Honduran woman who could not speak a word of English but somehow fell in love with me, asking to add me on facebook and kissing me goodbye and wishing me luck at the end. I couldn't have asked for a better introduciton to the Honduran culture.
It was unbelievably humid when we arived in San Pedro Sula and although it was only 9pm Honduran time, it was 5 am English time and we were all unbelievably tired. As soon as we got through the visa check in, Kate and i were wisked off to a hotel nearby with the girls from La Union, Kate and Rachel. The hotel, despite being very nice and tropical, was surrounded by security men and gates suggesting that we were not in the safest of towns.
We left early the next morning after a full Honduran breakfast buffet with fried banana, re-fried beans, tortillas, pancakes and spicy sausages. It was well... new. Four of us were squashed into the back of Jake's (Kate and Rachel's Rep) truck as we made our way to Gracias. It was extremely bumpy and long but the scenery was like nothing I had seen before. On our journey we came across some very very poor houses and hondurans and a crazy amount of stray dogs which all looked extremely skinny. However, my first impressions of Honduras was that it was beautiful! With tall mountains and so much green everywhere I really began to feel so lucky I have the opportunity to spend a year in this country.
So that was my first impression of Honduras and there is so much more excitement to come. I'll keep you updated very very soon!
Hasta luego
Hope
xxx
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