Hi everyone,

So I've arrived! On Friday night we got in to San Pedro Sula. The hours of flying were not so bad, the hour waiting at Honduran passport control after being awake for 24 hours was a little more trying. However, after we got through we were greeted by a thunderstorm lighting up the whole sky. Pretty awesome.

The next day we got picked up by one of the teachers at our school and driven to our project. The drive was incredible, everything was so green and I can't describe how beautiful. We then stopped at the side of the road to buy some bananas, which the lady chopped off with a massive knife. They like their big knives here. We then got taken to our accommodation which wasn't an annex as we had been told but a room in a family's house. However, there was no one around who spoke any English to explain things to us, and when we found someone who did speak English they didn't really know what was going on. The next two days were so tough. We were tired, we were homesick, we didn't like the food, the dogs outside kept us up all night and we didn't have a clue why we were in a house and if this was where we were going to be staying for the year. We ventured out for a walk and everyone stared at us, whistled at us or hissed at us. It was pretty scary.

However, on Monday things improved when we went up to the school and got to meet Nidia and Cesar who are the people in charge of the school. Nidia explained everything to us, and we are staying in the house, to help us integrate more. I got told I am teaching the Kinder class who will be about 4 and Erin is teaching Preparatory class who are about 5 and Nidia herself will be teaching the 3 year olds. Together we are the pre-school team and we have been spending the past week preparing for when the kids start a week on Monday. It's really exciting.

I'm also getting used to things here. The fact we don't have a shower but a big bucket of water and a smaller bucket which you use to scoop up the freezing water and pour it over your head. I like walking down the street now, and I don't mind random people talking to me, and I say hi back. We often go on walks with the family and the other day we went to the town's cinema to see World War Z. Me and Erin spent most of the movie clinging on to each other with pure fear.

We are cooking for ourselves, and although we burnt the onions last night, it hasn't gone too disastrously. We cook outside on the fire, and there is a wonky hob inside if we need to cook two things. We also had a go at making tortillas which was loads of fun. You take the dough have to spin it into a kind of circle and then put it on top of the slate above the fire. Needless to say our tortillas were quite holy which the family found very entertaining.

More somber news and I woke up this morning with a cockroach in my bed. Yes in my bed. However, we should probably count ourselves lucky as most of the other volunteers have been sick.

It's Erin's birthday on Sunday so were meeting up with two other volunteers to have lunch in Del Corral, which is a supermarket but supposedly the best place to eat. Despite all of the mishaps and disasters so far, and missing home I am enjoying Honduras and I can't wait until we start to teach.