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I am currently volunteering in Honduras for a year. Honduras is the second largest and second poorest country in Central America. I am living in Siguatepeque, a small city in Honduras. I am teaching English to pre-school children in Del Sol Montessori bilingual school and organising after school activities.

Project Trust is an educational charity that offers 17 and 18 year olds volunteering placements overseas.

This is a personal blog written by Ellen Morton. As such the views expressed in this blog are those of Ellen Morton and not those of Project Trust.


Saturday, July 20, 2013

Not long now

Hi everyone,

Lots of news since my last post. Firstly and most exciting I have finished all of my fundraising. A massive thanks to everyone who helped and we managed to raise over the £5,400 target.

Other news I have been given the details of my project. I will be teaching at Del Sol Montessori bilingual school, which is a Spanish - English bilingual school. I will be living in the small city of Siguatepeque in an annex with my partner. Our large host family lives downstairs and don't speak any English which will certainly be a challenge but should really help my Spanish. The city itself is the rural capital of the country and is surrounded by mountains. It has a population of about 75,000 and is only two hours each way away from the major cities which will be great for travelling.

Last week I also went on my training course. It was a lot of hard work but good fun and I got to meet the other volunteers going to Honduras and my partner. I was quite worried about meeting my partner in case we didn't get along, but when I met her I knew this wasn't going to be the case. I also learned more about Honduras, how to stay safe and probably most importantly how to teach.


So, I fly out on the 2nd of August and after almost 24 hours of travailing and we arrive into San Pedro Sula. Its under two weeks away which seams unreal and I'm just trying to get everything that I need together and also try to squeeze in some Spanish practice.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me get this far, 

Ellen



Sigua from above

The central square


A typical Sigua road


One of the classrooms at my school on a dress - up day
Sports Day

Thanksgiving celebrations at the school

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