TRUJILLO

I appologixe in advance for typos, this key board is shitty.

SO we made it here safely, and have been workign and relaxing for almost a week! Yesterday and today, we worked on a water filtration tank in san martin. THe guys that we work with are great, adn they all have very funny names. Vidal is the leader, and looks kind of like wyclef, and the others are Darwin, Giovanni, and Walter. They are great, but they think that we are babies, so they make us sit in the shade a lot and drink water and coke.

Our spanish is getting better every day. I can understand most things, but am having a very hard time speaking. Colleen is slowly catching on, and alex and emily are trying too. We have posted cards all over our room (which is very cozy) with spanish words on them so that we can learn.

We hasve lots of work ahead of us, but every day is a great adventure.
We have made soo many friends in trujillo, and we today we met a guy from Oregon who works at Finca Del Ninos, which is an orphanage in christales. We may try and go help out there on one of our days off.

Sorry I cant write all that ,uch, it is getting dark and we need to go back to the hotel. I will write much more later on, with much better description. I was sooo rushed! Hopefully i can get some pictures up as well.

If anyone want s to sen dme anything (THE NEW YORK TIMES)
they can address it to

Room 208
Christopher Columbus Beach Hotel
Trujillo, Colon
Honduras

Hope all is well in the US

Love

Z

Honduras

I leave for Honduras in approximately 2 weeks and there is SOOOO much to do before we go. The organization that we are working with, Hands to Honduras, was hit hard by the economic crisis, and so donations are down... ALOT. We have had to cut down from building 9 schools to building 4 schools. If anyone has ANY extra cash, please let me know, and I can tell you where to send your donations.

Hurricane Felix has also affected our trip. In 2007, Felix brought heavy rains to Honduras, and this in turn
caused massive mudslides. We are trying to get together clothes before we go to send down for flooding and mudslide victims. Again, if anyone has anything that they think they can spare, donations are super appreciated.

We are all trying to get everything together for our trip, while studying for mid-terms at the same time. I just keep imagining myself on the beach in two weeks and it is all worth it.

Also today, I had my first meeting with Eloise, Kathryn, and the parents about our trip to Tortola in April. We will be working on a fruit farm in Trellis Bay with this amazing sculptor Aragorn and a bunch of other WWOOFERS. Check out Aragorn here: http://www.aragornsstudio.com/




All of the travel guides say that Aragorn's Studio is the place to be, and he seems like a great guy so we are all VERY EXCITED!

That's all for now, check back later for more news!