First Weeks

So I have been in Honduras less then two weeks and it definitly feels like I have been here for much much longer. After arrving in San Pedro Sula we took a 5 hour bus ride to Zarabanda where we are having al of our training activities. The days are pretty much the same for these first three weeks. Five hours of language classes in the morning followed by lunch followed by either CORE activities and classes which consist of safety, health and culture or classes within your specific proyecto. There are fifty volunteers in all, workign in three different areas: youth development, project areas management, and municipal development. I am really excited about the municipal work it seems like I will be doing and look forward to those classes the most. My spanish isn´t terrible but it is so frustrating to not be able to communicate accurately what I wish to say with my host family. I am living with a host family that is probably considered a middle class honduran family. THey have electricity and water and an oven and a tv with cable but they use a pilla)look it up) for washing and I take a bucket bath everymorning. There are hours of discussions amoungst peace corp trainees regarding two topics, the temp of your bucket water and the food your mom gave you for breakfast. Food has actually been a pleasant suprise. I don´t mind the rice and beans and tortillas adn I have had some other really great things. Today I had a juice made out of star fruit. My host family has been really great. I live with a young married couple and their daughter who is two. Ana, mi mama anfritona, is only 24. Our relationship is improving as my spanish improves. The nice thing is that they are really laidback and lowkey when I get back from school and I can just hangout and play with my hermanita. I lve in a community of about 20 homes called Santa Rita. There are eleven voluntarios living there so there definitly i smoe gossip that gets around the mamas about who eats what adn whose a vegetatian and who didn´t attend the welcome fiesta. MAJOR Drama. It is raining almost everyday adn yesterday the bus which takes us to school got stuck in the mud and we all had to try to push it out and felt very peacecorpy. We have developed amoungst ourselves a system of points where you acrue them for duing something which would be a hardcore or pc type of activity. So, pushing bus out of mud 2pcp, but watching hbo spanish -2pcp.
Okay! Soon I hope to post more things on my blog with pictures and crazy other tidbits about my specific training and food and culture and new friends. I also, -2pcp, have a cell phone which I will be using for my job and for the pc to get a hold of me ice. SO, you can call me anytime on the weekends or during the evenings free for me!