Boston Hotel Tegucigalpa

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One Friday the 5th grade came into my class to read to my little ones, who are mesmerized by books because most don’t have any at home. My kids were all reading intently with the big kids and the big kids were having so much fun reading so expressively to the kinder kids. Ah! It was great to see so many kids enjoying reading! Hopefully we’ll do it every Friday. That Friday was also the first “Fruit Friday” we had, which is a program another teacher ...

... because they drove around the island in a blacked out minivan beeping at you as you walked along the one narrow road that had no pavements so basically where were you meant to walk? But I’m sure underneath the façade they were lovely people.

The Diving is great, beautiful clear azure waters, amazing reefs and great visibility and dazzling fish of all colours. Spectacular parrot fish, angel fish, trunkfish, trumpet fish, damselfish, fairy ...

... you off...it's just what they do to make some dinero. I handed her my dollar for three bottles and made my next target a bakery. I am not into shopping but using some new found Spanish skills turned out to be fun practice.

Somehow I have been appointed the lead negotiater for all things that must be conducted in Spanish for our group...taxis, a roof over our heads, food, customs and immigration...you know, the basic survival. All that stands ...

... At six feet tall I tower above everyone here and can see all the way down the streets above everyone else. I had forgotten what that is like since I have experienced that elsewhere in Latin America in the past.

If you have looked beyond Entertainment Tonight and In Touch magazine, you may have seen that there was a military coup here recently with a lot of civil unrest. It's actually pretty quiet here in the capital right now but graffiti ...

Damn... back to Tagu.. thats what the locals call the capital.. I wanted to go through this town but thought other wise since it was getting late in the afternoon. It took ten hours to get there and it cost $10 on tow buses. I picked a different hoostel and it was down town near the center so >Icould walk around. It was way nicer and cheaper, $7 a night. There were a lot of ...

... Tegucigalpa. The local team, Maratón, was playing Real España, another Honduran team. The stadium wasn't nearly was full as the one had been in Perú, but the people who were there were crazy, setting off bombs and climbing the barbed wire fences. (Feb. 8) Got up around 8 and went on a hunt to find a lavandería to get our clothes washed. We were all down to about nothing. This town more than others closes down completely on Sundays so it was a difficult task ...

... of Copan. He might have even taken over the nearby princedom of Quirigua and most of the monuments have been constructed during his reign. But the one that made Copan famous is his successor, 18 rabbit, who was a warrior, always seeking further military conquests until he was captured and beheaded in 738; then starting the beginning of the end of Copan's heyday with 18 rabbit's successors Smoke Monkey and is son Smoke Shell who nonetheless commissioned ...

... out of the way, each about 5 ft long. We are now parked in the parking lot of a Shell garage at Campento (N14.33.252 W86.39.066). 20th- Continued the journey to the capital Tegucigalpa and arrived on the outskirts about 10 am. We knew the address we wanted was on the ring road near the turn for the airport, unfortunately the ring road is not shown on any of our maps and as we found does not extend to the north of the town where we were. Still nothing ...

... the capital Tegucigalpa, in the hope that I could be able to make it all the way to Granada, Nicaragua, in time to start volunteering on Monday. Rather than trying to describe the type of volunteering that I will be doing, I will instead direct anyone who is interested to the organisation's website: http://www.casas-de-la-esperanza.org/ . However, for reasons that are no longer absolutely clear to me, I didn't end up leaving the island until Thursday. I think it was something ...

... from church. The last one we went to was about 45 minutes out of the city. The highlights including paddling little row-boats on the lake, eating rotissary chicken and standing about a foot away from a very old lion in a decrepit old cage. He did have a might roar though. Friday we are going to another park about an hour away. It is a tropical ...