Honuras Final

I finally arrived in honduras! it is an amazing country extremely beautiful with amazing people. we are now doing field based training in a small town called la cuesta. It is semi rural but we are having a great time. we are learnign different technical and administrative skills that we will be implimenting during our service as well as learning spanish. i live on top of a hill in a magnificent house with a giant flat screen tv. my friends call me the princess. we are a really close group which has made everything so much easier. the other day we got caught in a huge storm during a hike but no one complained and we all throughly enjoyed it. The political sitution still continue sbut there are few direct effects. I am tying to fit into the cultures as much as possible and my spanish is improving, i have also started to try and grow a mustache (when in rome) but it is not going so well. but i do have two whole years to work on it. in the upcoming weeks we will be working with farmers and learning how to build stoves among other things so i am extremely excited because everything is hands on and aplicable to what we may be doing in the future. I also got a phone and the number from the us is 011 504 9750 5493 and you can go to the tigo website (in spanish) and send free text messages from there for free. missing you all and hope everything is going well

So a few things have happened since my last post. i organized a softball game in the dominican republic against some dominicans, which turned out to be a legitimate game with umpires, floodlights, and a scoreboard. I basically kicked a bunch of dominican ass, I ball out pretty hard, what can I say. We left Honduras on Sunday, but our flight was delayed so we missed our connecting flight, so me stayed in a hotel in miami where they decided they would wait longer to send us to honduras. so now we are relaxing in miami waiting for the green light to head to honduras. never did i expect that my peace corps experience would consist of me relaxing at a pool in miami but i have come to terms with it and have been enjoying this little vacation. yet i cannot wait to get to honduras. other than that everything is great.

hi,
still in the DR. Everything is great we have really been having a lot of fun. We have been going to spanish and cultral classes then coming home and relaxing with fellow pc volunteers and our hcn(host country nationals). we are hoping to honduras in a frew days, buit who knows what will happen. my host family here is amazing they are the nicest people ever, and everyone comes over to my house to drink eat and play dominos. We also have been visiting voluteers here and all the prohjest look great and i cant wait to get out into the field and start working. Last night was one of my friends birthdays so we made a big fuss got pinatas and decorations and dressed him up in a tiarra and then went to the bars, it was a fun night. I am having a great time but cant wait to leave the city and go to a more rural place. Missing you all greatly!!!!!! I tried to upload pictures onto facebook so hope you can find them.

Dominican Republic

So I am in the Dominican Rep because of the political coup in Honduras. I love it here and am having an amazing time. But, we hope t go back to Honduras on the 22nd assuming all is safe and everything subsides. They are optimistic but they have no idea what is going to happen.
So for now we are learning spanish and about both the honduran and dominican culture. We go to school for most of the day but it is rather fun as we play games and it is mostly interactive. All the Peac Corps volunteers are great and I have been having a great time with them. We are mostly hippies but everyone is very down to earth. We are all very similar yet extremely different at the same time, so there is a great dynamic. We have been going out to the ¨car wash¨which is a bar next to car wash with really loud music (the first time we went we sat in front of a regulr car wash which was really funny). It is a lot of fun and i have been dancing merengue, bochata, and reggaeton. We also play a lot of hacky sack and frisbee, the two hippiest sports.
My host family is also great!!! There is my host mom, two sisters, a brother, and a grandson in my house, but there are always neighbors popping by for a drink or a conversation. My spanish has been pretty good as i can get around and have conversations with everyone. they say I am a ¨tiguere¨which means i am kinda like a hustler/quick person, which is really funny. We sit on the porch all night talking drinking and playing dominos. Dominos is a great game and i am getting better and better each day. The food is also great, we eat rice beans, plantians, chicken, steak, cassava, etc. and every single juice imagibnable. I also have been walking around meeting neighbors and finding fellow peace corps volunteers in the streets. everything is very relaxed and the people are extremely friendly.
Everything is great here and i am having the time of my life, sorry for the lenght of this and the spelling as i cant type on this computer


these are me opinions and not of the pece corps

The Journey Begins

Hi,
I don't really know how this blog thing is supposed to work, but I'll give it a shot. I leave for Honduras in two days!! I have been waiting to go for a few months now and the excitement keeps on building. My bags are packed and ready to go and before I know it I will be in Honduras. First, I go to Miami for a couple of days of orientation, then to Santa Lucia, a small town in Honduras for training. I have heard that training is intense and probably the worst part of most former peace corps volunteers' experience, but I am ready to make the best out of it. I really have no clue what to expect but I am thrilled to go and believe that whatever happens I will have an amazing experience in which I will learn a lot about myself and the world. As excited as I am I know my departure will be bitter sweet as I will miss my friends and family terribly. That being said I hope to keep in contact with all of you. If you would like to send me a message you can email ( lazarus.joshua@gmail.com ) facebook me, or send me a letter at Josh Lazarus, PCT, Voluntario del Cuerpo de Paz, Apartado Postal 3158, Tegucigalpa D.C 11102, Honduras.

Thank you for all the support and I will miss you all

PS I will try and update this blog but I don't know if there will be internet so I apologize in advance if I cannot update it regularly