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Hola from Mexico!!
Sorry once again that it´s been a long time but we hope you all like the photos :) We thought they told our story well enough and so have waited for good internet to write any sort of update.
We´re now in Mexico in a little town called Bacalar with the most amazing lagoon! We left Honduras on Monday after spending a day at the beach on a school trip. We had such a fantastic time teaching at the school and fell in love with the kids. It was tiring at times teaching for 6 hours a day and getting up so early in the mornings but it was definitely worth it, the only down side is that we now still wake up at the same time every morning...hard life :) The school we worked at was very basic and we struggled at times to work with minimum resources but it´s doing such a good thing for these kids, especially providing a free education for some of the poorer families.
We were pretty lucky being catered for everyday and living in free accomodation with the other volunteers, we soon got used to the daily serving of baleadas, rice and beans and swimming in the pool in the afternoons wasn´t so tough either :) We spent the first weekend in a town called Copan visiting the Mayan ruins there which were incredible. The following weekend we went away with some of the other volunteers to Tela, a sea side town with probably the best beach in Honduras where we spent the evening dancing in an empty bar to Eye of the Tiger and any other English music the DJ could dig out haha! We also arranged a party for some of the kids and got used to living the Catracho (Honduran) life on our patio :) It was really sad to leave :(
So anyway, now we´ve moved on. We stayed in Belize very briefly and met some funny people on the way! One man on the beach in Dangriga fetched us a coconut down from a palm tree and chopped it open with his machete; he said (cue Jamaican-like accent) "I spotted you over der fighting with a little coconut" so decided to give us a hand :) (just a funny story that we wanted to share) and now we´re at the lagoon in Mexico where we plan to spend our day and hopefully going on a boat trip tomorrow before we move on to Cancun!!
We fly to LA next week and we´ll be in the Cook Islands soon, super excited!
Hopefully update again soon.
Nikki and Maria xxx
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