2009.08.04: August 4, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Blogs - Honduras: Safety: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer "Adventures in Catacamas, Honduras" writes: Will Things Ever Return to Normal? No Creemos
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2009.08.04: August 4, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Blogs - Honduras: Safety: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer "Adventures in Catacamas, Honduras" writes: Will Things Ever Return to Normal? No Creemos
Peace Corps Volunteer "Adventures in Catacamas, Honduras" writes: Will Things Ever Return to Normal? No Creemos
"So things are still very boring around here. We are now allowed to travel as long as we don't go through Tegucigalpa, the capital. Too bad we have to pass through there to go almost anywhere... Our friend Elizabeth lives on our side of Tegucugalpa and was able to visit us last week! We had a great time watching lots of movies and eating lots of junk food."
Peace Corps Volunteer "Adventures in Catacamas, Honduras" writes: Will Things Ever Return to Normal? No Creemos
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Will Things Ever Return to Normal? No Creemos
So things are still very boring around here. We are now allowed to travel as long as we don't go through Tegucigalpa, the capital. Too bad we have to pass through there to go almost anywhere... Our friend Elizabeth lives on our side of Tegucugalpa and was able to visit us last week! We had a great time watching lots of movies and eating lots of junk food.
In the past five weeks there have been five days of classes at the public schools here and even less at the university. This is extremely frustrating as we both have little work to do and the kids are missing out on so many days of class which will not be made up. It's very discouraging. Most other places have resumed classes but since we live in the ousted president's hometown the strikes continue. Shannon's English classes have resumed, but many of the teachers from her level one class stopped coming in the four weeks that the schools were locked. Her class started at 30 people and now has about 10! There are still marches and roadblocks but they are getting less common. Zelaya, the ousted president, came into Honduras for about 20 minutes two weeks ago. He then went back to Nicaragua where he proceeded to camp out for a week or so. Needless to say, nothing came of it and he is supposedly going to resume talks. We really don't follow the news of the coup anymore because nothing happens. The new group of volunteers was finally able to make it here after three weeks in the Dominican Republic (lucky) and a week stuck in Miami (even luckier).
June 28, 2009: Coup in Honduras
Caption: A military vehicle patrols the area around the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa, Sunday June 28, 2009. Soldiers arrested Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as local news media reported that Zelaya was sent into exile.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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