THe first picture is of my first candle lighting...I didn´t know what to do..they forced me, held me down and make me obey their local religious laws... or else i thought it was just a fun thing to try and see if I get struck down or something...
The second is of the main church in Tegucigalpa... people come from all over to see this place and pray...
The third picture is of me and my buddy Jesse on the top of Montserrat, Yoscaran, Honduras...It wasn´t a long hick (4 hours up and 3 down), but I was so beat...My entire shirt and hat, underwear and socks were socked with sweat...Never have I sweat so damn much before... Ohh and sorry about the order of the pictures...
The 4th is of Danlí at night...so pretty!!!!
The 5th is a group of doooo-gooders from French Canada that aren´t separating and actually joining people together...The guy makes some impressive wood art and his mom is the one in the front (the live in Valle De Angeles).. The other ladies work to educate street youth all over Latin america...
The 6th is a local PEPE rally in support of the Conservative nominee for president down here... In a very small town - Yoscaran.
The 7th is cool picture of how small and old Yoscaran is..I as impressed...the First city with electricity in Honduras...That is something to brag about.
The 8th is the birthday party of Patty (one of the ladies that takes care of the house we live in) and my two buddies (Jesse and Eimile). All those kids are just some of the Patty´s and her 2 sisters... and all the sisters aren´t even 29years old... CRAZYYYYYYYYYY
The 9th is another picture of the Bash!
THe 10th is above the clouds hiking up to the top of Montserrat...So cool..walking through the clouds...sounds like a movie huh
The 11th.. ME with some great facial hair...ha ha, wait till I am done with this trip...Orthodox Amish Dude here I become
The 12th...The cramped bus ride out to Yoscaran to hike the peak... There were 6 of us youngens and we had to stay in the aisle and the bus had at least 100 people extra on it that wouldn´t be allowed in the states
the 13th.. The main surgery that is performed in our clinic... Removing ingrown toenails...Uñas...
the 14th... The front sign of my clinic
the 15th...a couple of cute danlí kids that allowed me to take their pictures
the 16th is an example of many of the houses in danlí.....there are many that are big and impressive with razor wire or electric wire around it and others that are tin shacks...But all of them are old old old...
I hope this helps...
It is we who nourish the soul of the world, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that ´s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better then we are.
05 November, 2005
Picture Time
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
04 November, 2005
Returning to Teguc
So I just got back to town from being in Danli for about 3.5 weeks and it has blown my mind...the city looks so huge and amazing now...when you leave the lights of the fast food joints and go to the rural blackness of the country, you can be totally blown away when returning...
Teguc isn´t that spectacular with all the lights and stuff, but it was to me...For at least tonight!
Updates with pictures tomorrow....
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
Teguc isn´t that spectacular with all the lights and stuff, but it was to me...For at least tonight!
Updates with pictures tomorrow....
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
29 October, 2005
Contact
If anyone would like to receive a postcard from Yo, let me know.
I would love you send you one. Just email me you address and I will get it to you ASAP.
Froboygod@hotmail.com
Dios y los gringos estan en todos lados
I would love you send you one. Just email me you address and I will get it to you ASAP.
Froboygod@hotmail.com
Dios y los gringos estan en todos lados
27 October, 2005
Danlí, HONDURAS
So, sorry for the long post intervals. I have been busy working!
So let me tell ya a little bit about Danlí. It is a small town in between many beautiful green mountains about two hours east by north east of the big capital city Tegucigalpa. It is a natural humidor and the weather doesn't change too much from perfect to perfect. This is where Cuban Cigars and local Hondurenian cigars are made.
The people are great! Very friendly, loving people who love saying hello and goodbye to you as you walk past them on the street. They marvel at me (probably because they haven't seen too many really white red heads before walking their streets); So I get a great deal of stairs and looks.
The food is not what I was thinking it would be. It consists of beans, rice, eggs, and some unknown meats. But, it isn't spicy! So I have been craving for spicy food for a while now. Although I love beans and rice and probably could live happily off all of this food, for the rest of my life! But I have found a good Mexican Restaurant in town which I frequent once a week with the other gringos at the clinic.
The people I am working with are very fun and very smart. Right now we have two doctors (one from Honduras and the other from Canada who came down here to research about diving and the effects of multiple dives in a day, and has been here for 10 years). There are also two pre-medical students (one from Dartmouth and the other from U of Maryland). So the latter two and myself are almost unseparateable. They are fluent in spanish and I can barely get by with my hellos and ciaos...
The house I live in is huge and the always have food for us and it is just across the street from the clinic I work at. But it often times doesn't have electricity, running water or hot water. We have a security guard/front desk receptionist that lives at the house and carries a gun with him at all times. So that is kinda weird! But it seems like everyone has a gun here.
Last weekend I went to Yoscaran, Honduras to climb Montserrat Mountain. It was gorgeous and totally pristine! We hiked up to above the clouds and ate a PP and J sandwich. That was fun!! Yoscaran is the first town to get electricity in Honduras and it is the place they made the Hondurenian Rum, but we decided that they would have good chinese food and opted for that.
So let me tell ya a little bit about Danlí. It is a small town in between many beautiful green mountains about two hours east by north east of the big capital city Tegucigalpa. It is a natural humidor and the weather doesn't change too much from perfect to perfect. This is where Cuban Cigars and local Hondurenian cigars are made.
The people are great! Very friendly, loving people who love saying hello and goodbye to you as you walk past them on the street. They marvel at me (probably because they haven't seen too many really white red heads before walking their streets); So I get a great deal of stairs and looks.
The food is not what I was thinking it would be. It consists of beans, rice, eggs, and some unknown meats. But, it isn't spicy! So I have been craving for spicy food for a while now. Although I love beans and rice and probably could live happily off all of this food, for the rest of my life! But I have found a good Mexican Restaurant in town which I frequent once a week with the other gringos at the clinic.
The people I am working with are very fun and very smart. Right now we have two doctors (one from Honduras and the other from Canada who came down here to research about diving and the effects of multiple dives in a day, and has been here for 10 years). There are also two pre-medical students (one from Dartmouth and the other from U of Maryland). So the latter two and myself are almost unseparateable. They are fluent in spanish and I can barely get by with my hellos and ciaos...
The house I live in is huge and the always have food for us and it is just across the street from the clinic I work at. But it often times doesn't have electricity, running water or hot water. We have a security guard/front desk receptionist that lives at the house and carries a gun with him at all times. So that is kinda weird! But it seems like everyone has a gun here.
Last weekend I went to Yoscaran, Honduras to climb Montserrat Mountain. It was gorgeous and totally pristine! We hiked up to above the clouds and ate a PP and J sandwich. That was fun!! Yoscaran is the first town to get electricity in Honduras and it is the place they made the Hondurenian Rum, but we decided that they would have good chinese food and opted for that.
10 October, 2005
Tegucigalpa, HONDURAS
HELLO from down south. I arrived and I am GREAT. The weather is perfect and I am sitting pretty in this great lush valley. Honduras is like one big mountain range and you couldnt believe how awesome it feels to be here!
I think this is going to be a good trip. On my way here I got to see Ex VP Al Gore in the airport (it took me a little time to figure out who he was). Then I got bumped to business class. THat was great!
I am surrounded by everything American. We got Dunkin Donuts, Churches, Wendys, Burger King, TGIF, Applebees all over. So I wont be hurting for nasty fast food.
I also get a keyboard that has this on it Ñ....yeah, who has that back home.jk
I think this is going to be a good trip. On my way here I got to see Ex VP Al Gore in the airport (it took me a little time to figure out who he was). Then I got bumped to business class. THat was great!
I am surrounded by everything American. We got Dunkin Donuts, Churches, Wendys, Burger King, TGIF, Applebees all over. So I wont be hurting for nasty fast food.
I also get a keyboard that has this on it Ñ....yeah, who has that back home.jk
18 September, 2005
12 September, 2005
Westbound
Since Aspen.... On to Baker, Nevada to check out the Great Basin National Park...Then on to San Francisco..And then home to Los Angeles
Got to see the Cubs beat the Giants...Always fun to tailgate
And ZeitGeist is a great bar!
Got to see the Cubs beat the Giants...Always fun to tailgate
And ZeitGeist is a great bar!
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