Our visit to the post office

The postal staff.

 

These two men loved having their photos taken.   The man with the cap ran away when he was asked if I could take a photo, but he returned with his special Honduran soccer team cap.  The post office is in a shocking state with paint peeling off the walls and bars across the counter but the friendliness of the staff made up for all of that.  We thought the boxes would never arrive but they'd been sitting there for 11 days and no-one had bothered to tell us.   We'd been hanging out for these boxes, specially for all the worksheets from Regina's wonderful collection.    I hope she's reading this blog, if not could someone make sure she does please?  She's an angel in disguise.  Thanks everyone else for their donations.   They're all so special and soooo useful.

Noise!

It's always noisy at our house.   There's the music from the bike shop which varies from soft to deafening, there's music from the pizza restaurant immediately across the road, but last Wednesday morning we heard an even louder noise of music, horn blasting and cheering!    The taxis from Tela were part of a parade, waving Honduran flags etc, driving past our house for about half an hour.   There must have been at least 300 taxis in the line. Nothing here seems to be very well organized but this support for the Honduran soccer team was obviously very important.   In case you didn't know, Honduras beat Costa Rica in the elimination game for the World Cup by 4.0.   This is a first for Honduras, an incredible achievement.   The next game is on September 5th and everyone's talking about it.   Hope you can view my video on Youtube.  I only manged to video the last few taxis but it does give you an idea of the noise.  Please put your speakers on full to get the full impact!  Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2hoN8RZDwI  ( You may need to cut and paste this address to gain access.)