Internship

As I said in my last post we have arrived here in Siguatepeque in Honduras. We are staying with a couple from Argentina in a very nice house. We have worked three days at the internship and I am starting to get a feel for the rhythm of the days. The first day was probably the most exciting because after an orientation and getting a computer station set up (we had to get a really old computer from the attic out of a 'graveyard' of computers and it took hours to find a combination of keyboard, monitor, and computer that worked) we went, in the afternoon, to a small town about an hour out of town for a ceremony. One of these pictures is of the car we were in as it fjords a river on the way to the town. The other picture is of the crowd that had gathered to watch the new mayor be inaugurated. When we got there I didn't really know what was going on and we were just standing in the crowd when all the sudden i heard them announce their thanks for Proyecto Aldea Global (our organization) and we were ushered to these special seats in the front. All in all it was interesting to watch the ceremony and in teh end I understood that the reason we were there was because Aldea Global was receiving an award from the town for their help in development.

The last two days of the internship we have been putting numbers into excel worksheets, which is mundane but at the same time valuable experience to understand office work. Basically we are working with the health and disease prevention part of the organization and therefore the data we are inputing deals mainly with health statistics of the various communities and medecines that were distributed. Another thing I enjoy about the office is the people we work with, it is good to practice spanish and fun to just get to know people. A few of the younger guys have invited us to go hiking in a national park with them this Saturday so I am looking forward to that.