Honduras Cancelled

So word is in... the honduras la paz project has officially cancelled due to the unstable government situation. The last two weeks, our team of 10 have been travelling to the communities, meeting community leaders, finding host families, finding families to feed the volunteers who will be living in their communities. We have been telling them to organize and discuss a community project to work on that Amigos will fund once the volunteers come and the proposal has been completed... we planned training for the 70 volunteers who are supposed to show up in a couple days...

There are riots in Tegucigalpa, Chavez is threatening to send troops to support Zelayah who says he is returning to Honduras in a couple of days. The situation is unstable, although I feel it will be completely safe in the rural communities, there is a risk for the volunteers who will arrive in Tegucigalpa.

It’s funny how the supervisors, including myself, were sitting around complaining about how this ruins our project, until one of the younger supervisors brought everything into perspective when he said that he hopes that the country is safe for the communities and becomes stable soon. Its true, as much as I want to complain about how this is unfortunate for me, this is the egotistical view, and truly, its sad for many of the people in the country, and for their sake we have to hope that everything turns out alright.

Nonetheless... my few entries, will remain as such... just a few entries over the span of a few weeks, and now, I am not sure what I will do for the rest of the summer...

-That was written last night, then this morning, we got word from Amigos that they are moving us to Costa Rica, so all the volunteers will arrive there on Tuesday and we are leaving on a bus tomorrow morning! That is unfortnate for Honduras... but we are glad that we get to continue and still help in the same way this summer....

Next update will share how people living in rural Costa Rica work, it probably won´t be by selling 5 cent a pound coffee beans after months of labor... but I´ll see and let you know.