Ok, I’m finally getting around to writing something about my trip. This post won’t have pictures, but there will be plenty to come. This is mostly to give you an overview of what happened down there and why there. This the fifth trip down there from my church, but my first. Normally, it is a youth group mission trip. But this time it turned into a mostly young adult/youth group. The destination is Pan American Health Services. They run an “orphanage” that caters to abused and malnourished children. They also help the underprivileged get an education. In the past the group has built and improved a casita, basically the home for the babies and young ones. They’ve also constructed a kitchen for visitors to use and poured lots of concrete for walkways. On this trip, besides me, there were 4 youth, 6 young adults and 6 adults.
We left home on the 13th and flew out a little after midnight on Valentines. We flew to El Salvador and then on to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. There we boarded a bus, grabbed some food and then headed up to Peña Blanca. That gets us there and instead of giving you a day by day I’ll explain generally what happened. We spent quite a bit of time hanging out with the kids and playing games when not working. For work, we were painting steel so that it wouldn’t rust away. Another project we picked up was building a home for a family in one of the mountain villages. A lot more on that later. We also took a day to go see Copán. We flew back on the 24th and arrived back in town at about 4:30 in the morning on the 25th.
I intend to put up quite a bit more especially about the house building project and pics of the kids. I couldn’t wait any longer to get something up, however. So now you’ve read the teaser.
cheers!
so far so good 🙂 looking forward to more details and pics, of course. I hope you learnt tons of spanish 😉