Hello,
It´s Friday. Whew. We have re-packed, loaded and are now in Tegucigalpa. Most of us went to the Valley of the Angels for shopping. I believe Visa and Master Card are very happy at the moment.
Paul and I went ahead with the luggage. Paul had a meeting with some fellow members of Rotary International. I´ve been to the Valley of the Angles before, so I went into town with Paul. We got in sooner than expected, so we had time to explore before the Rotary members arrived.
We walked and explored some interesting nooks and side streets of Tegucigalpa. The main cathedral is getting a face lift at the moment. It was built before the US revolutionary war, so it is probably due.
On our previous trip, we had only a few hours in Tegucigalpa. This time we had a chance to walk a few kilometers and see the city. I enjoyed the walk. The traffic is intense. The city has a feel and rythm that is different from what I expected. You have a 270 year old cathedral getting a face lift two blocks from a modern hotel. You walk into a shop specializing in school clothes meaning to ask directions and endup talking with the owner about the good that the Shriner´s hositals are doing kids all over the world. Oh and by the way, he has the kind of stuff you want to buy at the shop you were getting directions to. Two shops later, you buy a soda. You leave. The shop keeper´s helper follows you out of the shop for the bottle. You find out that you didn´t pay the bottle deposit, so you can have the soda but they really want the bottle to stay. Hm. A little farther on you see what a local street band sounds like. Much like in the US but with more strings and a few more CDs for sale. The rythm and feel of Tegucigalpa is something else.
Once we were done with the afternoon meeting, we had time to clean up and get ready for dinner. It was a good dinner. Very good. We all got bacvk here about 10 PM. Time to sack out and get ready for the return flight home.
Sorry, no pictures for today. This internet connection won´t let me do much.
For the future, I will be doing a couple more posts. One will be on the team here in Honduras, who they are and what they do. I have pictures and biographical information to post once I get home to a high speed connection. Another post will be about the work the dental teams are doing. I´m going to get some official numbers on services provided, do a comparison on what the costs would be for a person to get these locally and do a series of pictures showing what a patient would have seen had they come to the Sunrise team this year.
So, stay tuned folks, more to come once we get back to the US, take care of a few things and get all the pictures sorted out.
All the best from the team in Honduras,
Blair
Once we were done with the afternoon meeting, we had time to clean up and get ready for dinner. It was a good dinner. Very good. We all got bacvk here about 10 PM. Time to sack out and get ready for the return flight home.
Sorry, no pictures for today. This internet connection won´t let me do much.
For the future, I will be doing a couple more posts. One will be on the team here in Honduras, who they are and what they do. I have pictures and biographical information to post once I get home to a high speed connection. Another post will be about the work the dental teams are doing. I´m going to get some official numbers on services provided, do a comparison on what the costs would be for a person to get these locally and do a series of pictures showing what a patient would have seen had they come to the Sunrise team this year.
So, stay tuned folks, more to come once we get back to the US, take care of a few things and get all the pictures sorted out.
All the best from the team in Honduras,
Blair
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