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Hi Everyone,

In Santa Cruz de Yojoa, the town where we are working, there is an Internet cafe, so we can give you updates throughout our trip. Yesterday, we traveled all day and arrived in San Pedro de Sula around 12:30 am Honduras time (which is an hour behind Rochester time). We had a long layover in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (5 hours), but we passed the time playing Farkle and spoons with Gracie, a little Honduran girl. We spent the night at a hotel in San Pedro and then traveled about an hour and a half to Santa Cruz this morning.

When we arrived, we went to the Habitat for Humanity district office where we ate lunch and had a brief orientation. Lucas, our guide and interpreter for the first couple of days, talked about the beginnings of the Habitat program in Honduras and introduced some of the other people who work at the district office. They all were very excited and happy to have us here... We know enough Spanish to understand that :)

We then drove to the work site, which is about 10 minutes away from the office up a dirt road. We are building a three room cement block house for a family of 3 - a mom, dad, and one year old baby. Today, we dug dirt out of the rooms to level the floor and added a couple rows of blocks to the house. We won´t finish the house while we are here, but I´m sure we will make a lot of progress on it. At our orientation, they told us that our work would lead to the house being built in 4 weeks instead of 10 weeks.

Our hotel where we are staying is located about 20 minutes from Santa Cruz, so we are going to head there now. We will eat breakfast and dinner at the Hotel Agua Azul and then eat lunch at the work site. Apparently there is a pool at our hotel, so we are all pretty excited for that! Also, Hector, our driver for the duration of the trip, is going to introduce us to some high school students that we can play soccer with, so Emily and I are pumped to do that. I have to head out now, so I will write another update tomorrow.

Mike