Fuego Shakers, Site Predictions and Ending FBT!

Hola!!!!!!!
I can't believe this is our last week of FBT here in Talanga.... holy moly did that go by fast.

Last Friday we had a fieldtrip to a place with a pool, to go over everything we've covered these past few weeks, and to just... hang out. I bought a coconut from a man who chopped it up with his machete!

This week we made compost piles and little garden... ohhhh manual labor, how you've found me again... Oh! But a man from a tv station walked by and filmed up, and supposedly we made it on the Honduran news! Literally it was a man with a camcorder, meandering around the streets of Talanga, looking for something interesting.

We are wrapping up our self directed projects, next Thursday is the big parade in El Rosario! We are showcasing their masks, instruments, banner, singing abilities and potential dance abilities. Last week Margarita and I were in charge of making FUEGO SHAKERS!!!!


I have 2 more story hours next week- this past week i read a book about a boy who gets made into a pizza, and then we all decorated paper pieces of pizza! They had to draw their face in the middle, then they could decorate it however they wanted.... i made a model with my face, and about 3 kids gave themselves red hair, freckles and glasses... one of them actually drew an exact replica of my face.

Site announcements are Wednesday! We had our last interview this past week, and from that i gathered that I am being sent to a BIG site. AHHH!!! It will be ok... I mean... I had hoped for a small site, but there is a reason for everything. It's more about the work than the site, anyways. And it sounds like I will be doing some pretty awesome stuff. I am assigned two counterparts, one at a youth center (which I guess requires a lot of energy, as they told me even though i would have preferred a small site, i was the only one with enough energy to handle this youth center), and the other is at an infant center with little little ones. The second is paid for by the government, and is for extremely poor families. On Wednesday I should get more details! But given what we know already, and some internet research, I am ALMOST positive i know where i am going... but in case there are any Peace Corps rules about disclosing information, I won't say...

We had a lovely gathering last night at Alicia's house, everyone came! We celebrated Stacie's upcoming birthday. It was so much funnnn... I am going to miss everyone so much! It's weird to think that in just two weeks we will be dispersed all over Honduras.

Ohhhh we were taking some group pictures, and someone decided we should do one of them Honduran style... which means you don't smile and just stare... I dont remember whose camera it was taken on but I will try to snag it off of facebook to share with you all!

Thanks for following! I will leave you with a picture of my Spanish class.... And stay tuned to find out where I will spend the next two years of my life! ABRAZOS!!!!
love, lisa