"Volunteer Visit" Field Trip

Last weekend I went with another trainee on a “volunteer visit” to a town called Lamani about 3 hours away and stayed with a volunteer who’s about to finish up her service. Wow was it hot. I think it was in the upper 90s the three days we were there. Our volunteer, Jessica, showed us around her town and introduced us to the mayor, who she works with. She explained that all of her three original counterparts, the Hondurans that she was working with directly, eventually stopped working with her for one reason or another. She said that now she mostly just goes into the mayor’s office every day to help out with technical stuff there, but loves interacting with the people in her town nonetheless. I was impressed by how integrated she was in her community; everybody knew her name and stopped to chat as we passed. She was great about answering all the questions we had and gave us a clear insight into how real volunteer service is going to be. After visiting her town and experiencing a typical day in the life of a PCV in Honduras, we got to visit the city of Comayagua, the original capital of Honduras. We toured the cathedral there and saw a clock in its bell tower that they claimed was the oldest in all of the Americas (not sure if I believe it, but it looked cool and old).

Tomorrow we all leave for Field Based Training. I’ll be staying with a bigger family this time and my host dad to be is an Evangelical pastor—there are also four kids, the youngest being a 4 year old. It’ll be a good experience for me. I am going to miss my current host family though, because they’ve been great. That’s all for now. Adios.