Vamos a Roatan! Earlier this week every team received a debriefing on our hospitals and travel itineraries, and today I’m leaving for Roatan. The majority of our group, all of the Nicaragua-bound participants and some heading to Honduras, left in the wee hours of the morning today, around 2AM, but six of us who will be working in the La Ceiba area are heading out early this afternoon. Roatan is just off the La Ceiba coast if you check out the map in my first blog post. Last night we took a final snapshot of our household with our host mother, below. She’s been very good to us throughout.
My hospital partner for the coming weeks is Jens(Yens), another BME student from Aalborg University in Denmark. He and I seem to have the lengthiest travel itinerary. We’ll leave with the others early this afternoon to fly over Nicaragua and into El Salvador. We have a shorter than short layover of about 20 minutes there before flying into La Ceiba, where we’ll stay in a hotel overnight and then hop on a ferry to make the cross to Roatan on Sunday morning.
I still have a lot of unanswered questions about Honduras--the food, what the living area will be like, what a given workday will be like, etc., but we should learn a lot in the coming days. Also, I received a few statistics comparing the US and Honduras, and thought I would share them here:
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