the end of the beginning

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FYI, I am now bald. As in, "welcome to the real world, Neo" bald.

Found out where I'll be spending my next two years.

City called Olanchito in the departamiento/state called Yoro.

35,000 people, commercial town. I will not be roughing it when I'm actually in town, but part of job will be walking to the outlying aldeas (small village of 40 or so houses) to do my work. My counterpart agency is some Christian NGO that is trying to elimate poverty and poverty-related health problems.

The volunteers that predeced me set up some computer labs in schools in the city, and my bosses are pretty interested in me pursuing the same thing as a side-project.

I'll have a site buddy, another trainee in the Health project. I don't know her very well yet, but my people like her, and she seems pretty cool, so I have a feeling we'll hang out fairly often. There is also another volunteer in the Municipal Development project already working in Olanchito.

The city is about 20 miles (?) from the north coast as the crow flies, kinda near La Ceiba, a big big city. Trujillo supposedly is the best beach in the country, and I'm in the site closest to it. The girlfriend and I will probably make our way there. I'm the furthest northeast in my group. My singing buddy is the furthest east...he'll be in central Olancho (departamiento). Supposedly that place is like the wild west...everybody is strapped with guns and machetes. I will visit him eventually.

That's about it, in a nutshell.