Friday, August 13, 2004
I suck at updating my Blog
Hi all,
Sorry I have not written in forever, and I have so many things to write about, but now I am in Honduras renewing my VISA, and at the beach and want to write about that. So the next few blogs might by like some independent art student film where there is no string of time and the end leaves you feeling unsatisfied, but here goes...
To begin, Annies visit:
I just need to say how much I love Annie. she came and helped me out and then her and Tara and I went to a party in miralfor, a despedida for another English teacher, and then spent a few days in Granada. It was just so fantastic to hang out with the girls and talk and be me and listen to them and they are just fantastic. Annie and Tara both have just such good hearts, there are so few honest people in the world, and I love them for their courage to be so much themselves. they will both do fantastic things for the world, so if you dont know them, you should.
One funny story¨: We were on the bus and this woman came on selling Pepsis, but I was asleep, and it was like a comercial, I woke up all hot and dusty and my mouth was dry and this woman was calling out "gaseaos, Pepsi, Rojito", and so Annie and I got Pepsis and from the first drink we were all giggles, like were were drinking carbonated happy juice. And we were only half way through when the woman was like "hurry girls, I have to go"(but in spanish), and here they take the bottles back, and so we were trying to drink really fast and giggling, and couldn´t and then she was just staring at us, and we were laughing more, and it was just stressful and finally we sucked up as much as we could and the whole thing went from refreshing to feeling fat and bloated. So maybe it would be a better commercial for COKE!
Okay, one Honduran story:
Got here wednesday with my frind Clare to the beachside town of Tela, which is 2 hrs from La Ceiba, which is the jumping off point for the Bay islands where Annie and Tara and Paul and i are going to go get SCUBA certified, and from everything I have heard and seen, it is going to be phenomenal!
But around Tela is phenomenal, with tons of fantastic parks nearby, and loads of birds. Clare and I went on a kayak trip today througha mangrove swamp,a nd I saw three new species of birds, and actually there was an ornithologist on the trip who was working on a biological inventory at another park in Honduras. He is like a freelance scientist, who used to be a lecturer, but now is independently wealthy because he is a designer of sorts and just does science and conservation work as a volunteer and when he feels like it. I want that job.
Afterward, we chilled at a Garifuna village and relaxed in hammocks underneath thatched huts after a swim in crysatl clear 70 degree water while they cooked fresh fish they had caught that day over a wood fire. i had ceviche, and it was AMAZING!!!!! Also, the night before I had a traditional Garifuna seafood soup made with conch and shrimp and fish and crab and coconut milk that rivaled the casuela in Venezuela. Obviously the highlight of my journey so far is the vacation from 2L of oil a day and rice and beans and cuajada.
I LOVE the Caribbean!!!! Garifuas are escaped slaves who came to Honduras from St Vincent about 200 years ago, and they have awesome music and dancing, very African still in origin, but now some of the more modern stuff mixed with carribean and marimba and cumbia flavors. We are going to see a modern band tonight and perhaps tomorrow seek out a village and see some traditional dancing and then stay the night!
Tomorrow we are going to go hiking and snorkleing in a different park.
Ok, slowly but surely I will get all the storeis in
only one more now:
At the party in Miraflor some ratbastard stole annies and mine headlamps, so not only did we have to walk home in the dark with one weak flashlight between 5 women, I now have to use two poor nicaraguan flashlight for my work at night, and I really cant work as long, and run out of batteries frequently,and have made some data mistakes, and it sucks!!!
Sorry I have not written in forever, and I have so many things to write about, but now I am in Honduras renewing my VISA, and at the beach and want to write about that. So the next few blogs might by like some independent art student film where there is no string of time and the end leaves you feeling unsatisfied, but here goes...
To begin, Annies visit:
I just need to say how much I love Annie. she came and helped me out and then her and Tara and I went to a party in miralfor, a despedida for another English teacher, and then spent a few days in Granada. It was just so fantastic to hang out with the girls and talk and be me and listen to them and they are just fantastic. Annie and Tara both have just such good hearts, there are so few honest people in the world, and I love them for their courage to be so much themselves. they will both do fantastic things for the world, so if you dont know them, you should.
One funny story¨: We were on the bus and this woman came on selling Pepsis, but I was asleep, and it was like a comercial, I woke up all hot and dusty and my mouth was dry and this woman was calling out "gaseaos, Pepsi, Rojito", and so Annie and I got Pepsis and from the first drink we were all giggles, like were were drinking carbonated happy juice. And we were only half way through when the woman was like "hurry girls, I have to go"(but in spanish), and here they take the bottles back, and so we were trying to drink really fast and giggling, and couldn´t and then she was just staring at us, and we were laughing more, and it was just stressful and finally we sucked up as much as we could and the whole thing went from refreshing to feeling fat and bloated. So maybe it would be a better commercial for COKE!
Okay, one Honduran story:
Got here wednesday with my frind Clare to the beachside town of Tela, which is 2 hrs from La Ceiba, which is the jumping off point for the Bay islands where Annie and Tara and Paul and i are going to go get SCUBA certified, and from everything I have heard and seen, it is going to be phenomenal!
But around Tela is phenomenal, with tons of fantastic parks nearby, and loads of birds. Clare and I went on a kayak trip today througha mangrove swamp,a nd I saw three new species of birds, and actually there was an ornithologist on the trip who was working on a biological inventory at another park in Honduras. He is like a freelance scientist, who used to be a lecturer, but now is independently wealthy because he is a designer of sorts and just does science and conservation work as a volunteer and when he feels like it. I want that job.
Afterward, we chilled at a Garifuna village and relaxed in hammocks underneath thatched huts after a swim in crysatl clear 70 degree water while they cooked fresh fish they had caught that day over a wood fire. i had ceviche, and it was AMAZING!!!!! Also, the night before I had a traditional Garifuna seafood soup made with conch and shrimp and fish and crab and coconut milk that rivaled the casuela in Venezuela. Obviously the highlight of my journey so far is the vacation from 2L of oil a day and rice and beans and cuajada.
I LOVE the Caribbean!!!! Garifuas are escaped slaves who came to Honduras from St Vincent about 200 years ago, and they have awesome music and dancing, very African still in origin, but now some of the more modern stuff mixed with carribean and marimba and cumbia flavors. We are going to see a modern band tonight and perhaps tomorrow seek out a village and see some traditional dancing and then stay the night!
Tomorrow we are going to go hiking and snorkleing in a different park.
Ok, slowly but surely I will get all the storeis in
only one more now:
At the party in Miraflor some ratbastard stole annies and mine headlamps, so not only did we have to walk home in the dark with one weak flashlight between 5 women, I now have to use two poor nicaraguan flashlight for my work at night, and I really cant work as long, and run out of batteries frequently,and have made some data mistakes, and it sucks!!!
