Its drizzling in Honduras

Its the strangest thing.... We are in the rainy season here and In Maraita its been drizzling constantly. BUT just drizzling....

Somehow this drizzling has caused tremendous flooding to come off the nearby mountains so much so that the town bridges have been flooded and no one (bus nor car) could get in or out of the town.

Photo to be inserted but don't hold your breath....

Then some pipe must have burst somewhere so we didn't have water. The floods went down, the water came back, but it still comes out black. Fun shower time :D

Right now, I have about 1 year of service leftt as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. I have had the privledge to be a Municipal Development volunteer in one of the most corrupt countries in the world along with the wonderful UN statistic of having the highest murder rates in the world for a non-war country. I live in Maraita, a small mountainous town, two hours from the capital- Imagine a tiny town with 700 people in the center, with the smell of either coffee, beans, or tortillas; everyone knows everyone’s business but there is such a close knit community that you really feel a sense of family immediately. Maraita is included in the 50th poorest municipalities in Honduras, so their are a lot of challenges but overall I've been pretty successful in my projects I started- creating a participatory municipal budget with the public to improve transparency, training women in how to run and manage a micro-business, supporting a community bank to give locals a way to save money and take out loans, creating a functional property tax system (measuring and evaluating land and houses so that the local government can charge property taxes like in the states).

Another side project actually comes partly inspired by Martin Luther King Jr- I am working with fellow volunteers and a local NGO to create a leadership, tolerance and diversity camp for high school students.
I want this to be spectacular so send me any thoughts, quotes, activities, etc that I can use.

Hey that means you all my ex-RA friends :D