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Well, we are still in Honduras and it is spring-time(ish) in Los Estados Unidos, but here in Honduras it is HOT! we are currently in San Pedro Sula, a department of Honduras about four hours from Tegucigalpa. We are all staying in groups of 4-5 students with different families throughout the community.  This visit will be for this week and also for the week after next (next week is spring break for us).  Here we are studying maquillas, gangs, and land rights (among other things the week after next). 

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One of the highlights for me has been digging into the deep pros and cons of the maquilla (factories here which provide thousands of jobs but also export the jobs from the States). As we are studying NAFTA and CAFTA we are beginning to wrestle through what are better and best development theories and how they directly affect maquilla workers here. 

One cool thing about this semester has been living with three different families (and experiencing the different life styles of people living throughout the country).  For the majority of the semester we live in Tegucigalpa, but for about a week and a half total we live in Olancho and we will be here in San Pedro for two weeks.  I am living with four other girls in a small house which seems to be bursting with energy most of the time. Our mom feeds us loads of rice, beans and eggs (traditional Honduran cuisine) which I´m sure we will never get sick of.

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