Friday, June 29, 2007

The Latest From Central America

Will has been in Honduras now for the last four weeks working on his graduate thesis in Anthropology. Some of his work is taking place in the city of Comayagua where this photo is taken in front of a cathedral. He and his colleagues have traveled to other cities, one of which is the capital Tegucigalpa. This is his second summer here and he really enjoys visiting this
country and especially likes the culture. He hires some of the locals to help with his ground work projects and ends up forming friendships even though there is a language barrier. I suppose communication is not always about talking.

Sunday he will be leaving Honduras and traveling to Guatemala to spend his remaining four weeks and then he returns to Tampa. I do worry about him being out of the country, but we are able to keep in pretty good touch with email and a few cell phone calls here and there. The main thing is that he is happy to be there and more than happy to now see the light at the end of the tunnel for grad school. If all goes as scheduled he will graduate in December.

2 comments:

Will said...

Thanks, Mom, for sharing the photo! Everything is going great as you mentioned. I will be in Guatemala tomorrow (Sunday) to work on another project...everything is safe and sound. Lots of pictures to share later!

Chris said...

What a beautiful facade to that cathedral!
I know Will must be learning so much with these "hands on" projects. Would love to hear some of his stories of the local culture in the cities he visits.