The relaxation and exciting travelling time has finally begun. As soon as we discovered we were allowed to leave Anna, Melissa and I ran home, packed our bags and began to think about all the little things we're going to miss now that we were leaving. We have been building up to this first week of travelling for so long that it's hard to believe we have actually come to the end of our year as teachers and are soon going to be coming home! We decided to spend our...

So on New Years eve Mali and I decided that we wanted to do something that we've never been allowed/able to do before…set off fireworks all by ourselves!! :D Now, there is probably a good reason that we have never done it before, but when in Honduras that all becomes irrelevant, as we had found out a few days before when a stray firework came flying towards us set off by a kid that looked about 10!! Anyway, we stopped at the firework shack (located on the si...

So Christmas Eve and Christmas Day turned out to be two of the oddest, yet most, amazing days of my life! We left home (Graciela and Raul's) fairly early on the 24th and arrived in Ceiba at the ferry port around 12 thinking we would have to hang around until the ferry left at 4. Luckily/unluckily, depending on how you look at it, they were just about to send the smaller ferry (which we later found out has been aptly named "The Vomit Comet") across with a whole...