More Ferria Pictures

Kalin in her "typical" dress

I'm not sure why there was a Sun god in the parade but here is Kalin with her accesories.

Kalin and Lempira

Kalin La India Bonita

There is a big Fair in Gracias every 20th of July where they commemorate a local native indian hero Lempira who never surrendered to the spanish and was assassinated during treaty talks.  In this fair there were several parades and Kalin was in one of them.

This week was the most culturally busy week in Gracias. There were art shows, poetry reading,  symphony, and a reenactment of the assassination of Lempira in the middle of the municipal park. There were several beauty pageants throughout the week to crown the India Bonita.  

This particular parade Kalin was in with work partners (the technical unit of the 5 municipalities). 

One year in Site Party

On May 15 we completed one year in Site; so we invited our work partners to our house for a party.

There was Karaoke, food and fun. I threatened one of the guys I work that his karaoke might end up on the internet for the whole world to see.

We also got invited to our neighboors birthday party. He turned 6 years old. It was a very big fiesta.

Pespire Trip

So a couple of weeks ago we went back to visit our host family when we lived in Pespire Choluteca. We had forgotten just how hot it is there; and it reminded us how lucky we are to live in cool Gracias Lempira.

Corrupción y Pobreza

So I met a guy the other day in a village, and we talking about development in general. And he, without explaining it, refered to Electricity arriving to a Village as "corruption."  Later he explained that the electricity  is not necessarily the problem, but the normally the first thing a family buys after a light is a Television. Though the introduction of  lights also drastically change the social aspect of the village, television does the most damage.  Not only do the constant commercials educate the people that they don't have what they need to be happy. But the programs themselves, like telenovelas, preach several types of mistruths. 

I met another guy who never referred to his town or Honduras in general as being a "poor" place. He would say there are abundant natural resources and that he feels rich to have a familly that loves him and a community that supports him.

2 thoughts that got me thinking.

-Beto