Well, I was hit by the lazy bug for a while, and hence no updates.
Recently we had an impromptu get together, in which one day almost everyone in the department decided to go to danli, and then we all arrived plus extra friends for a party the next day. Just to celebrate life, no special reason.
I had a trainee come visit me. Remember way back when, I described going to Siguatepeque, well someone may be writing about their trip here. Unfortunately all he learned was that things go wrong a lot. I had plans but they all fell through, and I had three back up plans at one point, nothing worked. Well, he got caught up on his sleep! The good news is that seca didn´t eat him in his sleep- that was a bit of a worry.
All the water and sanitation aspirantes arrive in three days, which is crazy. means i have got to get cracking on work.
Jill
Friday, March 19, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
more pics, goodness I like fast internet
This is me a few weeks ago, talking to a lab tech at a water analysis lab.
Talking to another water institution with my friend Xiah. It was a bit of an information sharing and contact building meeting.
Playhouse- adults allowed!
Ok, so someone noticed that the camera was at an angle, so we leaned to get an uprightish layout, but leaned the wrong way!
Xiah and I enjoying minigolf. 
Good food.updaters
Happy Belated Birthday to Jack!
Ok, so the problem with not writing for a while is that a lot has happened but getting the right dates and order, plus just trying to remember everything is hard.
The other day I had an interesting day. I had to leave town early, and I dropped Seca off at the office before the sun cleared the mountains. Walking around town was so beautiful, so peaceful. Then, on the bus I saw a bunch of kids walking to school. For some reason all I could think was that kids have been walking to school for so long and it will continue for many many years. I went and talked to a community that once had no hope and now is excited to have a lot of projects going on, and have learned how to handle their own problems. The day was just kind of like, showing me my position in the universe in that things will continue on as they have but you can change it in little ways.
I attended a meeting in a town that another volunteer has designed a park for. They were talking about the positioning of the fence around the park (even in the middle of nowhere you can have vandalism) and the gringos were like, it would look better to have the flowers outside the fence so that you get a little of the park outside, and then we were humbled by the Hondurans who said that if the flowers were outside the livestock would eat them. Oh, didn't think of that.
This past week the government run health unit put on a dog vaccination clinic. Everyone was crazy about it, dogs who have never been outside the house went. I was told at every street corner, and they didn't take, "My dog already has her vaccines," for an answer so I had to lie and be like, I already went.
My dog is famous. People I have never seen are always asking me about her. Its nuts.
I went out last night in the capitol and we played minigolf. It has to be the hardest course I have ever seen! There were four of us and we had a blast! Then we went to a McDonalds and played in the playhouse. I don't think my mom would have allowed me to run around like that at 5 years of age, but I did it at 25!
Take care, and write or send me packages
Ok, so the problem with not writing for a while is that a lot has happened but getting the right dates and order, plus just trying to remember everything is hard.
The other day I had an interesting day. I had to leave town early, and I dropped Seca off at the office before the sun cleared the mountains. Walking around town was so beautiful, so peaceful. Then, on the bus I saw a bunch of kids walking to school. For some reason all I could think was that kids have been walking to school for so long and it will continue for many many years. I went and talked to a community that once had no hope and now is excited to have a lot of projects going on, and have learned how to handle their own problems. The day was just kind of like, showing me my position in the universe in that things will continue on as they have but you can change it in little ways.
I attended a meeting in a town that another volunteer has designed a park for. They were talking about the positioning of the fence around the park (even in the middle of nowhere you can have vandalism) and the gringos were like, it would look better to have the flowers outside the fence so that you get a little of the park outside, and then we were humbled by the Hondurans who said that if the flowers were outside the livestock would eat them. Oh, didn't think of that.
This past week the government run health unit put on a dog vaccination clinic. Everyone was crazy about it, dogs who have never been outside the house went. I was told at every street corner, and they didn't take, "My dog already has her vaccines," for an answer so I had to lie and be like, I already went.
My dog is famous. People I have never seen are always asking me about her. Its nuts.
I went out last night in the capitol and we played minigolf. It has to be the hardest course I have ever seen! There were four of us and we had a blast! Then we went to a McDonalds and played in the playhouse. I don't think my mom would have allowed me to run around like that at 5 years of age, but I did it at 25!
Take care, and write or send me packages
Friday, March 5, 2010
Holy Moly Pictures!
Hey, thanks to the miraculously fast internet in the capitol, I can upload a lot of photos.Yeah!
My kitchen in the apartment. Pila in the back.
My apartment, the counter and living room.
One photo of Santa Rosa de Copan
Park in Santa Rosa.
My friend and I in our fabulous hitchhiking in the back of a pick-up. Yes, I do have the "I'm stretching my arm out to get myself in the photo" face.
For anyone who knows what I did for my master's research, knows how much I love jar tests. This is at a water treatment plant (water supply not waste water) and they do this all the time.
My puppy! She is big, 36 pounds!
Lago Yajoa, the only natural lake in Honduras.
Superbowl party PC Honduras style.
My puppy in the back of the truck- she fell out later this day, but learned her lesson and hasn't done so since.
Lufas, the bath scrubbing thingies- the natural kind.
I do work- this is meeting a went to.
The guys clearing the space for the tank for the water system we are building.
Ok, if you zoom in you can see the tires on this bus are for serious off-roading. The true value of the school bus is just not seen the in the US.
Even the cement bags say "Say NO to drugs."
This house is made up of compacted dirt. Well, its a sand, clay and lyme mixture. It worked out really well.
This is one of the new dams. THe pipes overhead are to divert the water during construction.
Landfill-Honduran style. I went and the recycling program consists of REALLLLLLLY poor people picking the plastic bottles out, and the livestock eating anything organic. Can't even try to explain the smell there, I was there trying not to breathe, which naturally didn't work out so well.
My kitchen in the apartment. Pila in the back.
My apartment, the counter and living room.
One photo of Santa Rosa de Copan
Park in Santa Rosa.
My friend and I in our fabulous hitchhiking in the back of a pick-up. Yes, I do have the "I'm stretching my arm out to get myself in the photo" face.
For anyone who knows what I did for my master's research, knows how much I love jar tests. This is at a water treatment plant (water supply not waste water) and they do this all the time.
My puppy! She is big, 36 pounds!
Lago Yajoa, the only natural lake in Honduras.
Superbowl party PC Honduras style.
My puppy in the back of the truck- she fell out later this day, but learned her lesson and hasn't done so since.
Lufas, the bath scrubbing thingies- the natural kind.
I do work- this is meeting a went to.
The guys clearing the space for the tank for the water system we are building.
Ok, if you zoom in you can see the tires on this bus are for serious off-roading. The true value of the school bus is just not seen the in the US.
Even the cement bags say "Say NO to drugs." 
This house is made up of compacted dirt. Well, its a sand, clay and lyme mixture. It worked out really well.
This is one of the new dams. THe pipes overhead are to divert the water during construction.
Landfill-Honduran style. I went and the recycling program consists of REALLLLLLLY poor people picking the plastic bottles out, and the livestock eating anything organic. Can't even try to explain the smell there, I was there trying not to breathe, which naturally didn't work out so well.
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