We spent this sunday-tuesday in Tegucigalpa, paid for partially by Peace Corps. It was a great trip! Normally we are not allowed to travel overnight outside of our E-zone (emergency zones) before our two-month travel restriction is up, but I was able to go with special permission, since Jeff had to go to the office. It isn't possible for us to get to the Peace Corps office in one day, since we get in about 10:30, and the last bus back leaves at 12. Most of the time the E-zones have a welcome party for new volunteers, but since ours got cut in half two weeks after we got here, we haven't really gotten together to see people yet (and there are now only 6 of us). So, this was a really awesome opportunity to see some people, since our visit just happened to coincide with the VAC (volunteer advisory committee) meeting. We got to see some friends from training (Hi Andrea's mom!), and meet some new volunteers too! We had delicious food variety and lots of luxuries we don't normally have--like showers. And, more importantly, now we have our own internet modem to use whenever we want! If you have our US phone numbers, we can now send and recieve txt messages on them for free through Google Voice.
In the job department, things are... going. I guess. We got back from the city and promptly ran into one of my compañeros in the park, and he invited me to go to a protected areas charla next week. Also, they just got a bunch of new equipment for the office that I've been invited to share. I hadn't really been over to the office until today, since I'm the only person who would be in it, but I found it quite a productive place for me to be. Today I created a facebook page for the national park, La Muralla, that I'm working with. If you are reading this and have facebook (or, if you are reading this and don't have facebook, get it!), please go 'like' La Muralla so that I can get a registered username (need 25 likes). I'm also working on editing the wikipedia page for the park in English and creating it in Spanish. Who knew wikipedia was so complicated?
Also, now that we're somewhat settled (still looking for a house, but probably going to make that decision this week), I'm going to create a Wishlist page of things that would be awesome to have sent to us. If you've sent us stuff already we haven't gotten it, and that might be my fault. Apparently I had a superfluous '2' in the address that Jeff rectified a few days ago.
Sam
P.S. Any H19ers that are reading this, I plan to write a post of advice for you if you want it. I have a habit of forgetting to do things like that, but feel free to hustle me along through comments.
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