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Site: Concepción de Maria, Choluteca and the dookie, Erandique, Lempira
Sector: Health
Nicknames: BBRRAYAA, Carolina, Fe
Biggest accomplishment: getting a bolo(drunk) in my site to pronounce my name correctly
Biggest regret:not keeping in touch with a good friend from my first site or not getting pregnant with a cute brown baby
Biggest fear during Peace Corps: that every time I yelled back at a piropo(cat call) it would be my last time
Defining Peace Corps moment: too hard to pick just 1. Although, it felt really great to be the first gringa at a school in an aldea a half hour ride through marshy maddness. Then giving an awesome AIDS charla and playing basketball in, litterally, the middle of no where. It was pretty awesome.
Things you will miss most: never ever feeling rushed, eternal summer, and the baleada delivery child
Worst illness: getting my period 3 times in 1 month
Biggest freak-out: when a friend from the states was visiting and almost exploded sickness all over the bus
Most useful things I brought: crocs
Least useful thing I brought: green high heels....oh wait that was Anita
Favorite activity when bored: recyling my garbage by de-cu-paging my fridge
Weirdest thing I did when bored: became a hoola-hoop grand master
Favorite CD/song during service: that GD ¨Jamaican¨ song....it makes you so happy ya gotta do the pointer finger dance to it
Favorite book(s) during service: Jitterbug Perfume, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Memiors of a Beatnik
Favorite Honduran fashion: the li´l girls running around in fancy poofy prom dresses
Worst jalón:(hitch hike) the one I just had the other day with a giant pig head and its remaining parts shoved into bags. I avoided the blood by balancing on a tire and the edge-kinda like doing yoga on a surf board for 2 hrs.
Favorite food: baleadas. Hands down the baleadas.
Worst thing I ate: cups of water with floating dead ants
Untrue fact told to you as undeniable truth: they can´t fix that part of the road because every time they do a dwende (troll) comes and ruins it.
You know you’ve been in Honduras too long when…: you say thanks to a piropo(cat call) and mean it
I never thought I would…: learn godforsaken, praise the loyd, spanish
When I grow up I want to be…: a city gal
If I had to do it all over again I…: would do it all over again
Favorite Piropo:(cat call) ¨I can´t beleive you came from my rib!¨,algo asi
Favorite Aralen dream: I wasn´t on Aralen but I did have a really awesome dream that Sean and I were eating soup out of a pila(well). Sean got pissed because there was a monkey bouncing around in our soup. He avoided the broth as to not get contaminated by the monkey. Luckily, not too much later, the monkey hopped on the back of a colorful walking fish outside the pila.
Most bizarre intercultural exchange: I just read an article about ¨Tan addicts¨...thats pretty bizarre
Favorite Ropa Americana T-shirt: ¨I´m the big sister¨worn by a li´l boy
Favorite animal story: Ana´s singing, ¨mee mee mee meee¨, burro story
Worst habit acquired: coca cola...perfect for hangovers and after long runs!
Thing you missed most from the US:.family, friends, not being the slightest bit physically uncomfortable...ever...
Thing you missed least from the US: everything being black and white-having no gray area
Favorite location in Honduras: eating lots of candy then sitting on my outside stoop
Things you’d wish you had known when you signed up: free Newsweeks
Best advice for Honduras 12:. If you´re miserable, leave. Don´t stay around and make everyone elses life miserable

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