Time is flying by! It is hard to believe I have already been in Honduras for over a week. This Saturday we had a half-day cultural event at the training center. We learned about the indigenous groups in Honduras and learned how to prepare some typical Honduran dishes. My favorite was a dish from the north coast that was a toasted yucca chip with garlic! After class my host mother took me to buy a cell phone.
I spent Sunday with my family. We went to church in the morning, which is a short 10 minute walk from our house. After church I washed my clothes by hand in our “pilla.” A pilla is a cement basin that holds water on one side and has a cement washboard on the other side. This was quite the experience for me! It took me about an hour or so to wash everything and hang it on the line to dry. The worst part of the ordeal for me was that my family does own a washing machine. The peace corps wants all the volunteers to learn how to wash their clothes in the pilla since our sites will most likely not have a washing machine.
My Spanish is coming along slowly. I have around 4 hours of Spanish class every morning Monday through Friday. My class consists of only 4 other fellow volunteers. Our teacher is great and the Peace Corps language program is known to be one of the best in the world.
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