hey

hi, i am in a town called zarabanda now. we were supposed to leave for our sites yesterday but mel zelaya came back and thus there have been curfews the last week where we were not allowed to leave our houses for two days straight. now the curfews are only at night and we are confident that we will be able to go to our sites. my site is in olancho and the town is called la union, it is near these caves where the oldest human remains in central america were found. i will probably working with eco tourism here as well as enviro ed, sustainable farming, and many other projects. mty counter part seems amazing and everyione raves about him. olancho is also supposed to be a rough and tumble place so i am really excited to go. life here is pretty relaxing we ussually just chat play soccer and go on hikes. yet we have had a few parties which were really fun. i also went to a synangoge in teguz for rosh hashana which was fun but there were only a 15 ppl there and the key for the arc arrived a little late, but the ppl there were really nice and it was fun to go to a synagoge. hope you all are doing well, missing you all. i hope you all have a happy and healthy new year

love
josh

site!!!

i finally got my site. it is in olancho which is like the wild wild west of honduras but it is in the center. i am really excited to go there as the people are pretyy open and they are known as the cowboys of honduras and all the ones i met i really like. i am a little disapointed as my site will have 1000 people and electricity. i am not exactly sure what i will be doing and will have to wait until i get there. all is well

josh

Long time no blog

hi its been a while...so much has hapened since i last wrote... we have been continuing w classe and i have been learning so much. but more importantly we are having a lot of fun too. i went to a quinceñera which was a mixture betweeen a bar mitzvah and a wedding, extremely over the top but a ton of fun. i also went to this waterfall that filtered inot three pools each one getting progreseivley dirtier but it was a blast. my host sister also had a birthday with a piñata and one of the best cakes i have ever seen. we are also doin a lot of activities with our group like a pancake dinner and movies. we have really become close and it will be sad to leave them.
the food here is also really good, sugary and fried, but good. there is an underground frozen treat trade where random houses will put signs outside there house and sellfrozen juice/popsicles in bags and frozen chocolate bananas for the equivalent of five cents. i am addicted
yet i think these may have put me in the hospital. this weekend i spent two days in the hospital being pumped with ivs becuase i had a bacterail infection and ameobas. but it wasnt too bad and i got to take a warm shower and watch soccer all day and i am doing great nopw
all of honduras has soccer feverand our team is doing really well. we plan to project the game were we will beat mexcio onto a huge wall and all watch together but who knows if we can do it, never the less i cant wait.
yet my time here is coming to a end. on the 15th i go back to zarabanda and the 17th i findout where i will be for the next two years and what ill be doing and then go there on the 25th. i cannot wia tot get to my site and start working!!!!
sorry i havent been able to updat this blog more often but get used to it cuz it hard to get to the internet. hope everyone is doing well and i miss you all

josue (my new name, with an acent on the e)