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Not murdered, mugged, or beaten-A successful night
The object of this day was to get San Pedro Sula, and not be killed. No this is not a game. This place has the 2nd highest murder rate in the world.
Another fight, another decent bus trip and we dropped to our heavily guarded hotel for the evening. Once inside it was 2 minute noodles for dinner as venturing outside was strongly advised …
Horses and the most dangerous city in the world
... of americans who I spent the rest of the ride with. It was definitely nice to have some people to talk to! One of the horses had a foal too which was just following it everywhere. Was really cute. We rode up this ridiculously steep hill to a village where the kids were constantly offering us things to buy. It was a very basic village, some of the houses were just made of mud but their view was spectacular. They have been taught how to weave there by a charity so they can ...
Buses and Bullies
... shrugged and brushed me off. I decided it may not be wise to get into an argument with this woman. I gave in by keeping my seat in its full and upright position for a while longer.
It was peaceful, until....Steve reclined his seat and the woman who was traveling with the woman(bruja) behind me, hit Steve on the head.. He didn't cave.. I then followed by forcing my seat to its full, declined position and telling her ...
An adventure to the very end
... in time in fact to be there for the border opening. If the border was in fact to open. What the kind security guards failed to mention last night is that the border wasn't just closed, it was CLOSED. Not just blinds drawn on the passport office, but, er, concrete bridge colapsed type closed!
So yet again, thwarted. This time we find ourselves parked up at the front of the queue (small graces) of cars, on one side of a pile ...
And so it began…
... become the most rewarding, jobs out of any of us. After this year, I bet the changes we see in these kids will be dramatic and it will all be thanks to those 4 amazing teachers.
That’s not to say our teachers at San Jeronimo are any less amazing. We are just lucky to have students who have been well taught and trained by many talented individuals in the past. Even the “worst” kids at least know what is expected of them in ...
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