About Autumn Shapland

Hello friends and family!
Sorry it´s been a while since my last post. All of the volunteers went to Utila to go diving and take a break over the weekend.  I did my advanced diving certification while I was there. 5 dives in 2 days it was really intense but I loved it.  Since it´s my last full week here I´ve been really busy with working on the houses and with the kids, trying to fit in time for my host family and getting to know the volunteers.  We are putting the roof on one of the houses right now and [...]

Monday afternoon I went to IHNFA the child care center from 1-4:30.  The kids there are very much in need of attention and by the end of my day there I was completely exhausted.  The kids here know absolutely no discipline and it’s really a shame.  They are constantly hitting/ kicking each other, they don’t know the meaning of share, and don’t listen to us or the caregiver.  It’s very hard to see kids around the age of 2 who are already cussing and hitting other children, it’s sad knowing the usually there are no volunteers at this care center [...]

Hola! Como esta usted??? So my Spanish is getting a little better, although I still wouldn’t feel comfortable being completely on my own with out someone semi-fluent.  So Honduras… I love it here. The weather is wonderful depending on the city anywhere from 75-90 with very little humidity.  It is very mountainous and everything is green because it is winter here or their rainy season.  The only bad thing about it is the sun is up at 5:30 and down by 7 everyday so my sleep schedule has changed greatly.  We usually go to bed around 11 and wake up [...]

I first must say the computer keyboards here are different so writing this update will be quite difficult.  I had a great flight Monday and arrived in Honduras around noon.  Nick the Honduras director picked me and Sonya the other volunteer up at the airport.  We drove around Tegucigalpa and saw the city it´s not as impovershed as I had expected.  We headed out to our hotel around 2 and ate a huge lunch then went Sonya and I went into the town of Valle del Angeles and walked around for about 2 hours.  We went back to the hotel [...]

I am officially leaving for Honduras tomorrow morning! My flight from Omaha leaves at 5 am and I will arrive around 1130 there.  I don’t know how soon after I arrive I will be able to update but hopefully I’ll be able to let everyone know I’ve landed and what my plans will be!  Keep me in your prayers
Autumn Rose Shapland

I got to the airport this morning for my 530 am flight and found out my flight from Altanta to Honduras would not be happening today.  The Tegucigalpa airport in honduras is currently closed down due to exiled president trying to reenter the country.  At this point my flight and trip is rescheduled from July 13th to August 6th pending the airports reopening.  I’ll keep you all updated.  Keep your fingers crossed for me!

So the fourth of july and all its excitement are over and now all I can do is get ready for my trip!  I leave in less that 30 hours and I’m starting to get really nervous.  I know many of you are really worried about me being in Honduras with everything that is going on politically right now, but we have been assured that everything is still safe for us.  The people there still need my help and so I am still leaving as planned.  I wont be in a big city or the capital where most of the [...]

Hello friends and family. It’s only June 17th and I find myself starting to get nervous about my coming up trip to Honduras.  At this point I’m wishing I’d kept all my cloths from going to Malaysia last year.  So I’m heading to the Goodwill to look for clothes that are cool but cover my knees, elbows and almost up to the neck.  I don’t know how the people in Honduras live in the heat and humidity always in so much clothing.  I got an email from the Global Volunteer Network that I’m volunteering through yesterday! They said that there [...]