After months of waiting, I am finally leaving for Honduras in February! Before I actually leave for Central America we have a Peace Corps orientation in Washington DC to meet the other volunteers as well as get some more basic information on the program and training. I leave for DC early on February 10th to get there for the start of orientation which is on the 11th. After two days in DC all the volunteers going to Honduras, as part of six different projects, leave together so my first day in Honduras will be the 13th. I will be a health educator working in HIV/AIDS prevention and child survival. Although I do not yet know what my specific project will be I am really looking forward to the work. I will have about three months of training when I get there which will be a little north of the capital, Tegucigalpa before I move to a site where I will be for the two years following training. I don't know where I'll be placed but will find out sometime toward the end of training.
I am really excited to go and would like to keep in touch with as many people as possible. I don't yet know how the email access will be, but I will be able to send and write many letters. I will also try to update this blog as often as I can to let everyone know what I am doing. I hope this will provide everyone with a glimpse of what life is like in the Peace Corps in Honduras.
Here is my address:
Sarah West, PCT
Voluntario del Cuerpo de Paz
Apartado Postal 3158
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
America Central
