San Pedro Sula

According to the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), in the past two years, the colonies: San Miguel, El Carrizal, Villa Nueva, La Rosa, Hato de Enmedio, Altos de Loarque and the market areas of Comayagüela have concentrated the 35 % of homicides in the city. Otherwise, the colonies: La Kennedy, Los Pinos, El Reparto, la Estados Unidos, El Pedregal

Right now I have millions of ideas and plans for my future in my mind. When my teacher said the essay was about ¨What I Will Do With My Life? ¨ I had a feeling of chills that covered my whole body. Really there are so many plans in my mind that I don´t know from were to start. I´m just looking for a happy life, it doesn´t need to be perfect. The first important moment of my life is to graduate. I know that my grades are not so good, and that I have been failing on doing several stuff, but all that

Honduras is one of those countries people barely know about there are really interesting things about honduras. The life expectancy of people in Honduras is 71. Some of the exports are coffee , bananas, shrimp, lobster etc. (text from national geographic atlas of the world eighth edition). Hondureno catracho (the national nickname) can be amusing; insulting , or friendly depending on the context “catracho” comes from the name Florencio Xatruch , the general who led the Honduran expeditionary force

Six Things You Should Know about traveling to Honduras Honduras is the second-largest country in Central America, but one of the poorest. The Mayan ruins at Copán are the remains of a civilization that flourished there between the fourth and ninth centuries AD. Christopher Columbus landed in Honduras on his last voyage in 1502. In search of gold and silver, the Spanish conquered the land beginning in 1524. Within twenty years, the native population decreased to only eight thousand due to disease

Today, November 16, 2016, my perspective altered drastically. The hot humid air of Honduras made my skin sticky and my hair damp. The sun beat down on me as if I sat in an inescapable sauna. Houses made of tin and cinder blocks flew past us as the police escorted us to the clinic. 10 minutes later my dad and I reached the clinic and gratefully exited the bus and rushed inside. “Ahhhhh...air conditioning! What a blessing!” I thought. We expected 10-15 patients to come to our dental chair to get their

Before I begin to talk about my personal calling, allow me to share some wisdom I heard at my first SEND Conference in the Fall of 2014. Christians make such a major ordeal of “their call”. In churches across the country, people ask others “what’s your call” or use a lack of a “Macedonian Call” as an excuse to not be evangelistic. I came to Holmes with that mindset. I knew I was “called” to missions. I had gone to Honduras in September 2011. Before that, I had heard Isaiah 6:8 while Steve Harrelson

25 Reasons to Live in San Jose There are dozens of reasons why you should live in San Jose. Whether you are looking for a quiet city in tradition and live in meticulously restored buildings of the 19th century or a modern city which is the capital of Silicon Valley and live among the world’s biggest names in technology industry. If you are not yet decided whether you want to live in San Jose, this article will give you 25 reasons to live in San Jose, you will be making travels plans by the time

“I shall never forget the impression which our first landing on the beach of California made upon me,” Richard Henry Dana fondly recalls in his book, ‘Two Years Before The Mast” (60). In 1834 Dana, a nineteen-year-old law student, set sail from Boston to California, by way of Cape Corn. When Dana set sail on the Pilgrim he could have never conceptualized that which he would encounter nor could the Spaniards and Indians foresee the ramifications of his journey to their coast. Six years later

live in a small city that is known as the “Heart of the Harbor”, Wilmington. According to "Early Views of San Pedro and Wilmington", Phineas Banning procured the 640 acres of land that would get to be Wilmington. The 21-mile railroad was built in the late 1860’s by Banning and the new railroad drastically decreased the cost of transporting goods to and from San Pedro ("Early Views of San Pedro and Wilmington"). Without Banning’s vision and tenacity, the City of Los Angeles the way everybody knows

before. Nevertheless, I was going to Belize! Our school organized a trip of which seniors, who were a part of the Environmental Science course, could go on an eight-day adventure in the vast jungles of Belize and explore the party island itself – San Pedro. While the other four students (five total including myself) had trouble departing the school along with their loved ones, there was me who was impatiently waiting and eagerly ready to go. I mean come on, it was just eight days in a foreign country