Five members of Girlguiding UK are travelling to Honduras for 3 weeks to teach about HIV/AIDS, sexual health and teenage pregnancy
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Day 13 - A night in the army barracks!
Friday - we left Tegucigalpa at 9am in high spirits ready for the 2 hour drive to Choluteca where our 3 day workshop would be. We were due to start our sessions at 2, and grew slightly concerned at getting lost and waiting ages for lunch, and leaving the restaurant at 1.40pm. When we did finally arrive we were welcomed into a real live army barracks with men with guns and lots of cows. We arrived to no leaders, and a large room full of army beds, which the army men then proceeded to put mosquito nets on and clean the communal showers. We were very lucky and given the luxury of the Officers dorm, and the Colnel cleared his stuff for us! We waited, and we waited for the leaders to arrive whilst the heavens opened and it proceeded to pour it down with rain, to a point where it was flooded outside our room. Emma and Hannah caught a glimpse of an enormous Giant Iguana creeping round the side of the building and it suddenly dawned on us what these ´dinosaurs´ the officers had been referring to were. Finally, at 5.30pm a bus of 8 new leaders arrived and we found out that the rest of the leaders - the 42 missing- couldn´t get the bus today due to strikes on the road. The workshop for the day was cancelled until the leaders would arrive at 8am tomorrow, so we had yet another team meeting to create a new 2-day leader plan instead. That night we ate in the army canteen before playing some games with the Honduran leaders and retiring to bed (with our own armed body guard outside our door), hoping for some better luck tomorrow.
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