This first post from Honduras contains some good news and some not-so-good news. The good news is that I am finally here in Honduras, my home for the next two years and some number of months. I love it here so far, and I have a lot to say about my new homes, families, and training. This brings me to the bad news. Although I have a lot to say, and a lot to show with pictures, I am lacking resources that enable me to share all that I have.

One of the problems is the internet here in our FBT site, or better said, the lack of it. Opening the page to write this quick update took over 5 minutes, and I could be here all day waiting for it to be uploaded. According to the man at the counter, there are days in which the internet is super fast, and days like today when we are limited to a dial up modem simulation when using the internet. When I am able to travel to the nearest city I will be have a whole host of entries for your reading pleasure, and some pictures and videos for your viewing and listening pleasure.

The most important resource that I am lacking is time. I am learing that FBT may be more about time management than about techincal training. The Calender of Training Events (shortened to COTE, prounced coh-teh, in true government fashion) has our activities planned down to the minute for the next seven weeks. In order to write and post pictures, I need time. To travel to the nearest city to upload everything, I need time. So far, time has been exactly what I haven´t had much of. I am thinking that the Peace Corps might have an hour and a half session on how to manage our time wisely, due to the lack of time we posess from all of the hour and a half sessions we have every day.

I may be jumping the gun on this, but from my experience so far, Honduras feels like perfect fit for my Peace Corps experience. I will have more on this in the upcoming posts, but for now, anyone can contact me on my Honduran cell phone. In order to do so, you will first have to use the contact page to write me an e-mail and ask for my number. You can then go to www.tigo.com.hn and send me free text messages, or if you are feeling very generous, add saldo* to my phone. I hope to be hearing from you in the next couple of weeks. You will be hearing from me as soon as I find a better internet connection. But of course, as always here in Latin America, everything is dependent on si dios quiere.

*Saldo is the word used here for credit on your phone. Since phones are prepaid, you have to buy minutes before you can talk, and the balance on your phone is your saldo