some fotos

these are just some fotos i have on my USB, which i had left in an internet cafe on a sunday in comayagua only to actually STILL BE THERE on tuesday after when i realized that i had left it.
there are still some very good people in the world.

so, now that i have no camera, i will be uploading old fotos, until i buy a disposable but that will take a while. so for now i will continually upload fotos that i may or may not have already uploaded.... sorry about that. :)

((by the way, the camera story is very unglamorous. i went to la tigra national park with a couple of friends, which was gorgeous. we hiked and camped for 2 days and 2 nights. i dropped my camera during this trip and now it says "lens error" whenever i try to turn it on. it has been a long time coming. i also lost a very valuable earring to the tiger... very sad. very, very sad.))

this week we are in valle de angeles for re-connect. re-connect is something that each group has (municipal development, youth development, small business, water and sanitation, health/hiv/aids awareness and protected area management) once a year and those who have been in country for a year make presentations on their work while those who have only been in site for a short time discuss their adjustment process. it seems like it will be a nice week to RE-CONNECT with old friends as well as have a normal schedule--something i have genuinely missed since training. however, things are all about to pick up.

one thing i have noticed in my town is that there is an apparent need, or desire, rather, for a small business training. there is also what we call "chocolate water" when it rains, which is usually often however we are entering the dry season, and since i live in the edge of a valley and the bottom of a mountain all of the run-off from above comes down and chocolatizes the water. sometimes it is gray. so, taht being said, i think that while i came here for youth development, i can focus a lot of my projects over the next 20 months on how to make things and sell them and also talk to the municipality about how to get the water working better. fortunately i can also utilize other volunteers from those respective projects for ideas, because i honestly do not know anything about either business or water and sanitation besides the fact that other people usually take care of those things and i utilize them.

soo, i'm doing well, feeling healthy, readjusting OK, etc. i'll probably be able to update this blog a bit over the following week as i will have access to internet.


the pictures, however, after uploading for the last 10 minutes, just errored. i'll see if i can repost.