My final days!!!

Greetings from Honduras!!!

As I wrap up my time here in Honduras, I've realized there is still a lot of work to be done!  Tonight I'm conducting my final focus group/celebration, tomorrow I will head to Tegucigalpa and Friday I start my journey home.  Whew...  I am sad to go but relieved to come home at the same time.  This was hard work!!!  Well, I guess there was a little play thrown in there too. :)

Over the past couple of days I've been working with Miguel on transcribing the recorded session from last Saturday's focus group meeting.   We FINALLY finished it today! Whew!  Hopefully the meeting tonight won't last as long...that way I can transcribe the recorded session, translate it and have it ready to go for coding in the U.S.  But, as with everything in Honduras.....it is hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait.   :)  The transcribing portion of this project takes the longest, and I am so lucky to have awesome translators to work with.  I wouldn't have been able to do this without the help and support of Miguel (from Engineers Without Borders-S&T) and Jennifer (from Primero Agua http://www.primeroagua.org/).  They have both been incredible, and I owe any success I have with this project to them.  Really, they have been so patient/willing to translate anything this gringa can ask for.  So, if you are reading this....Thank you so very much.    

I asked Janice (from Washington Overseas Mission http://www.wix.com/saraheve11/wom) to pick up a chocolate for us to eat during the final focus group meeting tonight!!!  YAY!  The cake is so cute...and from what I've heard, is quite yummy!  I'm excited to see the participant photos tonight and to hear their stories/plans to make the community better.  It will be a very humbling way to wrap up the trip.

During my two weeks here, I made connections with two incredible organizations-Washington Overseas Mission and Primero Agua.  When I return in January, I plan to work with one of the two organizations on implementing a health education curriculum for the teachers to use here in the schools.  I hope to come here and hold a training for the teachers and watch them as they progress with this awesome, yet sustainable, public health movement.  It is going to be great! 

I'll try to post a blog either tonight or tomorrow after the session.  If I can't get it in, I promise to update you all on everything when I get back to the states....sorry to be so short, but we are all sharing the internet!!!  

Hasta Luego!!!!

SheWhoTravelsForJustice