Yesterday we drove from Tegucigalpa to out 3rd workshop with 20 leaders aged 14-19, in a local secondary school. We adapted our 2 day leader workshop and girl one day workshop to be relevant to these leaders, and also condense it to the time we had. We ran activities on leadership, STIs, HIV and AIDS and did condom demonstrators to give the leaders confidence to pass these skills onto their girls. The workshop was hard work, especially as we had limited time, but after another hilarous rendition of the ´here I am on my badger´song, we hope they went home having learnt a lot.
This morning we were lovingly awoken at 6 by some super keen tourists outside our window, before driving to our next workshop with girls aged 8-12 in another school in the Danli region of Honduras, close to Nicaragua. We ran this workshop outside much to the delight of some local builders as well as the boys in the school who watched on eagerly, every now and again saying things like ´I´m sorry´ and ´hello my friend´ which was always nice. The girls were an absolute delight and we all bounced off their enthusiasm and had a great workshop. You should have seen them scream when we blew up the condoms and played games with them, and they all worked really well in all the activities we ran about self esteem, teenage pregnancy and STIs. We convinced most of the girls that Hannah was actually Hannah Montana, as well as lots of girls coming up and asking ´do you like Justin Beiber?´to which the answer had to be yes.
The girls all asked us if we were coming back, and we had to let them down gently that we were doing this once only. The badger song/our now daily exercise dance of course went down a treat, and we all left on a high having completed half of our project now!
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