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Bridge to Service

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Photos from our Peace Corps Volunteer graduation ceremony on May 15, 2009 at the American Embassy in Tegucigalpa with his Excellency Hugo Llorens, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, swearing us in to Peace Corps service.  That’s the Ambassador between me and one of my Honduran counterparts, Marlene, with whose mother I will live for two months in La Masica.  Also, my Health Project team of 12, and at Campo Zarabanda where we returned for lunch my friend Jen, and Jen and my friend Matt.

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Twenty-four hours later I met Cuchita the pig who lives in my front yard but wanders the neighborhood.  Ah, from such lofty heights we tumble.  The old house in the photo is across the street from my new temporary home (the house where I live is, of course, much nicer).  The wooded area is also across from where I live; we live on a corner lot and the wood belongs to my host mother and is a pantry from where she regularly gleans food for our table.  The business end of the cows belong to one of several small herds that amble by each day in the mornings and in the afternoons.

 

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One Response to “Bridge to Service”

  1. Lyn Dunsavage says:
    2. June 2009 at 22:23

    We are searching for my brother, Joe dunsavage, who went missing off the coast of Roatan, in a catamaran on may 10, 2009. Indications are that he hit would have hit land around the La Ceiba area. I don’t know if there are any peace corps volunteers in the coastal area, but if you could please share this information, my family is still searching for him. There are rumors we have heard about an American being found in the waters off La Ceiba and taken to the hospital, Centro Honduran and then transfered to Atlantidad, our efforts to try to confirm this met with mixed messages. If anyone knows any information, any rumors that have been heard, please respond back. could you please pass this along to others who may also be of assistance. TThanks, Luludee27@gmail.com also more information can be found at celticgirl62.blogspot.com

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