This picture is the terrace of the flat I live in now, it is a really nice and secure house and is known as Casa Verde.
Last week I wrote a blog entry about Las Mangas. The second part of my life here in Honduras is La Ceiba, the city I live in. Here I go to Spanish classes in the mornings and I am in the middle of my fourth week of learning Spanish now. On Monday last week I started working for the Spanish school on some marketing projects, and this way I get my Spanish lessons for free, which I am very pleased about.
La Ceiba is not a pretty town and what I liked most about my first walk into town was to walk back toward the mountains in the evening. Seeing the forested hills made me feel like I was returning to Las Mangas. I miss Sandra when I am here. La Ceiba is mostly known as a party town and travel destination for nature tourism. It is a seaside town, but the beach is unfortunately filthy and you have to leave the town to get to a nice beach.
I do have to say some nice things about La Ceiba too. The people are mostly very nice. I also found some friends here at the Spanish school. We went to the cinema together a couple of times on evenings when the tickets are half price (1.5 $). At the moment I am living with a Canadian girl who offered me to stay in her flat the day she met me, because I am part of the expat bubble once again, I suppose. It is a very nice flat with nice neighbours, but unfortunately I have to move again this week because the other girl who lives here is coming back from Canada.
So far I have been moving every two weeks. Two weeks in Las Mangas with Sandra, two weeks in a host family in La Ceiba and two weeks in the flat I am in now. This week I have to decide where to move next. There are two options: 1) moving to a family in Las Mangas, 2) moving into a flat in La Ceiba.
The problem is, I said yes to the apartment yesterday… and when I came home I regretted it. Mainly because the flat is unfurnished, there is no internet and I would be living outside the centre on my own. Now I am in the process of finding out what the options are with the family and I feel like moving back to Las Mangas is much better for me. There I would be living in a Spanish speaking family, so good for my language skills, I would be close to Sandra and the family needs to drive to town every morning with the children, so transportation is not such a big problem.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Next week I will be able to tell you all more about my future living situation!
This picture is the street I used to live in and at the end of the street where another car is turning into the street you can see a white building with arches that is my Spanish school.
Hope all is well!
Love
Chiara