Photos - something to start you off

Thanks for popping back, and here are some photos from the trip, with more to added soon.

Ellie from the team has also created a great video which we hope to link/ add to soon.

Enjoy.

Our trusty steed for the time we were out there, driven by the capable Carlos

Getting ready for our Pirates Holiday Club

 A very British evening (complete with music and Beef stew w/ dumplings)

Blocks of Sugar, made from sugar cane sap

Day 4 - a guys perspective

To give you an idea of our time here, I will let you know that the team are in dormitories with bunk beds, and the guys (Sam, Dunc, Dyl and Ben) are in one room, while the girls are split between two. All the guys got the bed they wanted, and ear plugs have obviously only been deployed due to the night chorus from outside, rather then the noises from inside!

As has been mentioned before, we were lucky enough to see all the school children (from the Manuelito home and the poorer kids from the nearby town Talanga), be able to spend their points that they had accumulated in the last month for doing positive things, on clothing, toys, sweets and other items. It was touching to see a young boy come out proudly displaying the toy cars he had got, as while they were for an younger child, they may have the first proper toys he had ever had.

We also found out that we had been able to give in the donated clothes at the right time, as they were able to be included in this month's choice, especially the boys clothing, as they find it hard to get enough boys clothes as so many more. All the football tops went very quickly, so lots of new Arsenal and Chelsea fans!

In Honduras, the most popular sport is football, and they watch and know lots about Spanish and English football, with the spanish team Barcelona being the most popular. Baseball is the second most popular.

At the holiday club, it was great to hang out with the kids and see them really enjoy us put this club on for them, so much so that they would get involved and be really concentrating as they enjoy the stories and the creative craft. There is nothing like having about 50 kids who have been cheering loudly for last few minutes suddenly fall silent for 30 minutes as they add colour to a picture (including butterflies, boats, fish and bees) that they can then keep and have on their bunk bed wall, to bring home how much this means to them. Also, one of the older boys wanted to do the closing prayer for the club, which was great as well.

In the evening, while the ladies were preparing for the pamper evening, Dyl, Sam and Ben played American football and normal football/soccer with some of the younger boys, and you know that you are really out of your comfort zone when you are being lightly tackled and wrestled on the ground by four boys you barely know the name of, and are still really enjoying it and seeing them really enjoy it as well.

Later in the evening, Sam, Dyl and Ben (with some technical help from Dunc) organised a movie night for the children, complete with sweet popcorn from UK (which the children had never tasted) and watched 'The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!/ Band of Misfits' in spanish with english subtitles. The kids really enjoyed it and we had a good time, and got back just before the rain started (it was started to become brown again, so was needed)

Hope you enjoyed reading this, and come back soon for the next installment.

The Guys (Ben, Dyl, Dunc and Sam)

Over to you - Any Questions about Honduras?

Ok, so we have been asking you a few questions to see what you might already know about Honduras, and we think you have been doing quite well.

So why don't we turn the tables, and let you ask the questions about Honduras and those who live there, and we will ask them on your behalf to those who we meet there.

If you have a question that you want to ask one of the team or someone who lives in Honduras, then add it as a blog comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras, and we will see if you we can get an answer for you, and add it as a tweet and as part of a post.

Mind you, we will filter the questions for appropriateness, but we are sure you quite sensible anyway!

Honduras Quiz part 6 -the answers!

Well done for keeping on coming back, and here are the answers you have been waiting for:

1. Belize
2. Bottle nose dolphins
3. depths
4. silver
5. 80%
6. Maya
7. 1821
8. 8,000,000
9. Orchid
10. 11

So how did you do?

When the team going to Honduras did it, some of us only got 2 and a few got up to 7, so we reckon it's quite difficult!

Honduras Quiz part 5 - last questions

Last two questions, and the answers tomorrow

10. What is the national flower of Honduras?

• Peace Lily
• Orchid
• Amaryllis
• Bird of Paradise

9. In Britain we have 426 motor vehicles per 1000 people. How many are there per 1000 people in Honduras?

• 11
• 28
• 42
• 73

Hope you have been enjoying guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can still add as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers tomorrow.

Honduras Quiz part 4 - How are you doing?

just a couple more! Last ones tomorrow

7. Once part of the Spanish Empire, when did Honduras become an independent nation?

• 1795
• 1821
• 1850
• 1878

8. What is the approximate population of Honduras?

• 5,000,000
• 8,000,000
• 11,500,000
• 19,000,000

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras, ), and we will reveal the answers (and last few quiz questions) by the end of this week.

Honduras Quiz part 3 - Can you tell what it is yet?

Ok, you might have noticed a pattern! Here are another two to tax your knowledge

5. Honduras has three distinct topological regions – two narrow coastal strips and an interior mountainous region. Approximately what percentage of the country's area is in the central mountains?

• 20%
• 40%
• 60%
• 80%

6. In Western Honduras, there is the archaeological site of Copan. Which pre-Spanish civilisation had its' capital city there between 500 and 900 AD?

• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec
• Teotihuacan

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and a few more quiz questions) later in the week.

Honduras Quiz part 2 - what do you think?

Here are some more questions, can you guess these?

3. On his 4^th voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands and landed on the cost of Honduras near the modern town of Trujillo. Honduras is supposedly named by him – what does it mean?

• Depths
• High mountains
• Green land
• Thanks to God

4. What valuable resource was a major factor in inducing the Spanish to form settlements in Honduras, where they subsequently ruled for around three centuries?

• Bananas
• Uranium
• Silver
• Lead

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and some more quiz questions) later in the week.

Honduras Quiz part 1 - Do you know these?

Here are some quiz questions about Honduras, can you guess which is the right answer?

1. Which of these central American countries does not share a border with Honduras?

• Nicaragua
• Guatamala
• Belize
• El Salvador

2. The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef is the second largest barrier reef in the world and has its southern end off the coast of Honduras (the Bay Islands) Divers there can see many interesting animals, including which of the following?

• Blue Whales
• Bottle nose dolphins
• Electric eels
• Piranhas

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and some more quiz questions) later in the week.