SO I know I´ve been a bad blogger lately and you are all dying to know what is going on in Camasca. Here is a quick review. The big annual fair just passed in Camasca, it was really a lot of fun. The first three days of it we had the big training Ive been preparing for a while, and 2 other volunteers helped me. It was extremely stressful because how can an event in Honduras not be stressful, if you are the one planning it. Per usual we changed the date, participants, location, and other important details several times the week before the event. I was especially stressed bc some of the people that were supposed to do things for the event…didn’t at all, so I was left to manage those things plus the actual content of the workshop, buy the materials, write the proposal for the grant, do the follow up. SO thankful that Zach (Sitemate) and Sarah (lives in a nearby town) came to help, dont know what I would have done without them.

In La Esperanza right now, been here for several days. Went to a Religious Equality Forum which was great, we talked candidly about religious beliefs of the attending volunteers (ranged from atheist to agnostic to jewish to buddhist to christian) and how we cope with religious issues in Honduras. I would have left Sunday but I am supposedly having a meeting with the department director in Camasca and the director of Intibuca, my department, to see about funding help for the big Yo Merezco project. Have tried to have this meeting for weeks so Im glad we{re finally doing it but so annoying because the project was going to start this week, and Im almost certain this meeting will require a follow-up one. I also had assumed I coudl get a ride back to Camasca with the director, and had planned on taking cool stuff from volunteers who are finishing their service, but the director didnt answer his phone all yesterday and it turns out he is in La Esperanza all week. So Im hoping that the afternoon bus travels today, and that sometime in the next 2 weeks someone can help me get the stuff to Camasca, because strapping a table to the top of the bus sounds tricky…

Oh, so I was going to tell you about feria. There were soccer games, traditional food, dances, lots of vendors, a rodeo, and lots of families back to celebrate. The last few days were the best. Cool rodeo, met some cool folks from El Salvador that I may see next month.

Ok, would love to write more but it will have to wait until another day.