And the Peace Corps experience begins...

Staging in Washington D.C., meeting new friends for two years!

...then on February 13, 2008...our training class flew to Honduras to begin training in Santa Lucia...
...we began to learn about Honduran cultures...
...became close to new friends (this is Jason and Emelina)...
...lived with host families...this is my family and my host dad playing the guitar with a fellow trainee...
...Emelina cooked up a little taste of home for us at her house in Santa Lucia...
...plato tipico, the typical plate in Honduras...mmmm...
...then I moved to Ojojona for Feild Based Training...my room was really nice!...
...my kitchen in Ojojona...
...the streets of Ojojona on Palm Sunday!...
...the business group took a trip to Amapala...the southern beach in Honduras...
...My family in Ojojona!...
...I love my bags of water!....
...my niece!, host family, Ojojona...
...more of my host fam in Ojojona...sisters and cousins...
...hanging out with fellow trainees...
...my sisters from Ojojona....
...working with a group of highschoolers on a business simulation...they made a L.840 profit on their product!...
...another picture from Palm Sunday in Ojojona...
...back in Santa Lucia...we are now volunteers!...
...swearing in as volunteers at the US Embassy...our business group...
...a politician in the making...
...all of the business volunteers got Honduran cigars...
...our business group finding out our sites!...
...and in Mercedes, Ocotepeque....my new home for two years...(a few new friends)

...the main street, my house is the last house on the left...
..my new office...