I am currently sitting in the air conditioned WorldVision office, chatting with Paul, and writing this blog. Yes, life is pretty rough here in Honduras.
Hehe.
But really...I am totally stoked that we have Internet in all the offices now...that means there is no more fighting over the 1 computer we used to have. Seriously.
Anyway...everything is good. I realized how little I write in here now so I thought I would just say hello.
Life is good, work is good. I feel very at home here...had friends over on Saturday night at my place which was fun. Miel has officially eaten 3 pairs of jeans and 1 pair of sandals of mine...but hey, I wanted a dog right? RIGHT.
I am leaving tomorrow for Gracias, Lempira and the midwives workshop which I am excited about.
More to come as always...
Monday, August 18, 2008
08.07.08 Go PEPFAR
I have some very exciting news...I spoke with Trudy (the country director for PC Honduras) yesterday and after answering a few of her questions, I was informed that she approved my Pepfar (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) grant that I wrote for the Exposida! Woohoo! It all happened so quickly too…now I just have to wait for the administration gods to do their thing and we will have funds!
This week has been absolutely insane too…I can’t believe its only Thursday but I also can’t believe that its already August 7th. What a contradiction, I know. I just have so much going on right now…I barely spend any time at home (my poor puppy, I know) and when I am there, I feel like I have so much work to do still. Today I started cleaning out the 2nd bedroom so that I can turn it into an office and get all my work stuff out of my living room. I gave a ToT (Training of Trainers…what we call the standard 4 hour HIV charla that is ideally used to train the participants to give the charla to others) to 35 high school students yesterday –alone- which was exhausting. Plus I am a little under the weather so my voice was pretty much shot afterwards. I also had a meeting with Wilda (the librarian) and a woman who works with the youth groups in the Catholic Church. We talked about working with them on HIV prevention and whatnot which is really exciting. She and I were definitely on the same page about most things which was pleasantly surprising.
There is an obstetrics emergency workshop in a couple of weeks in Gracias, Lempira and I am taking a nurse from the health center and a local midwife. I am really excited because I don’t know much about ob-gyn stuff. :)
No wonder Emelina calls me super volunteer. Haha…
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