Third week in Honduras

Good morning! It is Saturday morning and we have just finished our third week in Honduras. As far as the internship goes we are assembling a report regarding the donations Proyecto Aldea Global has received and where different medical materials have gone. Practically at this time it means typing up lists of items and quantities. It feels good to be assigned a report to complete and not just data entry (even though the actual work is similar).

Yesterday Jordon and I went to the town Minas de Oro with our coworkers bcause they had to do some interviews there for potentional employees. We got up at 4:30 AM! It was about a four hour drive away mainly on pretty rough dirt roads, which made sleeping in the car impossible. Good to see another little town. we didn't really help with the interviews they kinda just said "go explore and come back for lunch" so that was cool. I talked to a teacher in town who thoguht I was with the Peace Corps (Cuerpo de Paz) that made me happy but I told him i was with Aldea Global and we talked for a bit. The only disappointing part was that although the town name means "Gold mines" i did not find any gold there, I did not even see any gold mines because it turns out the closest mines are 2 hours away. The pictures here are both from Minas de Oro. The one with the sign is me with a sign describing a water project that Aldea Global does, it was exciting for me because that is one of the projects I have entered lots of data and forms about in the office, it is good to be reminded that our work is going towards a good cause. the second picture is from a hill that Jordon and I hiked up by Minas de Oro and I went ahead and took a picture of the town, as you can see no gold mines in sight!

When we got back there was this family at our house (they are staying with our host family for a little, i think something happened to their dad or something?) Anyway they have the cutest little daughter who i became very good friends with and everyone thoguht it was pretty funny as we played catch and kitchen etc... She was pretty nice and didn't seem that concerned that my Spanish was a little different! After that we went to dinner last night with the church youth group (or 10 or so other young people from the church...i don't know if it was an 'event' or just something we got invited to) it was fun but i was tired from getting up so early and that makes it hard to speak spanish but i did alright. It is always nice to interact with people similar in age in Spanish.

Thank you all for your support and messages!