Crowne Plaza Tegucigalpa

... out, lots of cheers, many owws and ahhs and a lot of laughter. It was an unusual way to celebrate Independence Day but also possibly apt to show the fight and struggle against their former oppressor &#8211; Great Britain.<br><br>After the boxing was done and the sun was setting 1 lempira notes were thrown from the ring and the children scrabbled over each other to get to them, adults elbowed their way in and I and others took photos. Suddenly the scene went ...

... behavior is so far from typical down here where 99.999999% of the people we have come across are WONDERFUL. <br><br>We still needed a taxi and the other drivers didn't dare approach us now for a fare, so I chose one and approached him. Oh did he look thrilled right about that moment to have the Gringo Cop walking up to him, and I am sure he was thinking, "no senor, no por favor. taxi is no running. taxi is broke" He turned out to be a much nicer driver ...

... reelected as a permenant president... the vote<br>was going to go on today... and now he has been arrested.<br></li></ul><br>Theres<br>fi ghter jets outside... helicopters... and from the hotel room this<br>morning we can see demonstrators hanging out around something burning<br>with a big cloud of smoke rising from above it... off in the distance<br>(Behind the ...

wednesday, june 3, 2009Day 10<br><br> Well, I don´t remember exactly where I left off last time but I´m going to start with Monday.<br><br>Another intern is here, she arrived monday and I love her and I´m not just saying that because she´s sitting right next to me. haha.<br><br>Honduras is different without the 1st park plaza group. It´s still great! I just got used to having them around.<br><br>Monday evening we went down to the ...

... jsem jela mistnim busem za 3L /taxi stalo 180L/, letiste bylo kousek od centra, stale v zastavbe, tak sem mela jeste sanci utrait posledni penize za ovoce. Odbaveni probehlo bez problemu, batuzek narozdil ode me trosku pribral na 12,5kg. Jeste me zkasli o tucnych $34 - odletova taxa z Hondurasu. Letiste bylo mrnave, brnenske je rozhodne vetsi! Oodletame na cas! vzhuru domu

... seemed. The airport was spotless and it really could have been an airport in North America. But hey, even poor countries like to make their airports look great for good first impressions. Then I walk outside and see your local variety of fast food restaurants such as Burger King and KFC and a smattering of others. There were some nice vehicles in the parking lots of these places and I even spotted a couple of Mustangs. Where am I? Did I even ...

... to Tegus as the weather has been awful in San Pedro with torrential rain all night. We sloshed through 3 feet of water on the way out of town, and I feared for my backpack in the compartment underneath, but the roads soon improved and everything was dry when we eventually reached Tegus after numerous stops for bananas, for the driver and half the male passengers to have a pee (us ladies had to hold it), for lunch at a roadside restaurant where we also ...

... too. We hung out all day just watching movies, getting online, and looking at pictures. We had a late dinner and went to bed shortly after. Sometime around 2 am I woke up feeling like there was a battle going on in my stomach. I had a lot of nausea and just felt horrible. So I went into the bathroom and the first thing I did was cradle my head in my hands and lean against ...

... hanging around in Honduras anyway. When I explained that I had been hoping to start volunteering in Nicaragua that Monday, the lady made a call to the Tegucigalpa office and was told that if I wrote a letter explaining my situation (which could prove an interesting task), then it might be possible that my extension could be pushed through in two or three days. Although this still wasn't ideal, it was certainly much better news, and regardless I had no option but to head to the ...

... on Friday which prevented me exploring the city much. I wandered around the area I was staying in, during which time the most exciting thing I saw or did was watching the news footage of the airplane crash site in Spanish while having a pretty damn bad hamburgesa. But I was able to catch the National Spelling Bee finals and am pleased that a kid one this year who is not a complete social cripple. Dinner was better - piglet fajitas, in ...