uvas

The other day, my host mom brought home some exotic Honduran fruit that I didn't recognize at all... Excited to try this new fruit, I asked her what it was...... They were uvas (grapes). haha.. I guess I was just convinced that since we were in Honduras, clearly it couldn't be something familiar like grapes.

We're half way through with field based training (A month and 3 days from swear-in, and only about 3 weeks until we find out our sites!). We've started our semi-individual projects in the surrounding communities.. considering my still terrible Spanish, I had mixed feelings about our project, because I was afraid that my group would just get in the way. But after starting it yesterday, I feel much better. The guy we were going to work with is out of town until September 6 or something, but we were able to help another lady who has been having trouble with some software. She had (as far as I understand) been copying charts from the tax software cell-by-cell into excel to play with the numbers, but we were able to figure out how to export the data into excel almost perfectly. So hopefully her work will get a lot easier after this. Our next step is to figure out what she's trying to do with the data and see if we can help her with that.

we're here!

We've been here in Honduras for about 2 weeks now... about a week of regular training, and then our first week of field based, so our training group is now split up into our three different projects. It's hot, but not like the DR. I live in a house connected to another volunteer, so we basically we share two families. I did my laundry by myself for the first time yesterday - my wrists were really sore all day.. Kathy and I both got in trouble for not cleaning our clothes well enough, though...