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Sea, sun and…erm…ganja?
... of a touristy town. I’m one of very few white faces in the town, there is very little American influence (no Pizza Huts, joy!) and its beaches are littered with rubbish dumped by locals who just do not seem to care about their environment. This is something that seems to be endemic to the region.There just seems to be no culture of respecting their environment (and I’m not talking about THE environment). ...
A Gringa in Cofradia
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This past week we started our two week Summer Academy where students are asked if they would like to attend a summer session to kick start the school year and give us teachers a chance to practice our skills from training. I am working in a combined first/second grade with about 15 students in it each day. There are four teachers and we take turns teaching the three main subjects: English/Language Arts, Math, and Science. Because my ...
Thanksgiving...Honduran Style
... true trouble begins. Foolishly, we had assumed that we were early and that nobody would take a 5:00 AM bus out of town. We. Are. WRONG. Every gringo in the city has the same idea! A group of addled girls with poor Spanish take nearly 20 minutes to book their tickets. I begin to shift nervously. Our bus leaves in 15 minutes! Seeing that we'll be next in line, Chad and I grab our passports and cash, anticipating the short amount of time ...
Good Ridence!
... Good ridence! She probably found away to stow away in a luggage compartment somewhere. Anyways, that´s the moment where we decided that we would have to scrutinize our fellow travellers to a higher degree. But we carried on our way and made it Tela without a hitch.
There´s really nothing to say about Tela except that the town wasn´t worth the visit. The beachfront is mediocre and the town itself is not well kept. Honduras advertises it as ...
Fried fish and plantains
... bitten by ants. That doesn't normally happen in botanic gardens. The park itself was ok, plant wise there wasn't anything that amazing. The locals were making use of the swimming hole and there was some really big bamboo growing around the place that looked cool.
Afterwards we went to a Garifuna village (the black people living along the coast of Honduras, Guatemala & Belize are the Garifuna people) called La Ensenada where there were lots of ...


