About Tyler Caccavale

John Caccavale Hello, My name is Tyler Caccavale and I am 18 years old out of Newport News, Virginia. I will be joining the building project in La Esperanza, Honduras for 6 weeks as of June 2. I am extremely excited for this trip and I hope you enjoy reading my page. -Tyler

Tyler's Posts:

Adios Honduras

July 14th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Hola!
So i have offically been here in Honduras for 6 weeks.  It is amazing how fast time goes by..
My last full week, last week, was a lot of fun.  At work we continued building the support structures for the roof and made cement for the tops of the windows. The house is looking more and more like a real house now, the walls being completed and the roof in close site.  Also, our volunteer coordinator will be coming into town today from Tegucigalpa so he and i will run around the hardware stores here buying supplies for the washroom´s completion. [...]

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Feliz Cuatro de Julio

July 4th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Happy Fourth of July!
So it has been a while since my last post, but this time I have an excuse. Since I last wrote, myself and 6 other volunteers went to the beautiful island of Roatan in Honduras’s Bay Islands for the weekend. We ended up trapped in the Caribbean during a revolution.
So, we took off for Roatan for a weekend get-away in the Caribbean. I was really excited since it was the first time that I had been to the Caribbean. Roatan is actually a very cool place because is it considered the most under the radar [...]

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Week Four Already!

June 24th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Fourth week already!
Wow it does not feel like three full weeks have gone by, but I guess that is a good thing seeing as time flies when you’re having fun. Last week the new volunteers did indeed arrive in mass. Now we have gone from about 10 to around 30. The ground has been broken on the new building site and the foundation seems to be coming along. I am not working on that house however so I am not exactly of much use to explain the process they are doing now. As for our house, we are making progress [...]

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Week 3

June 16th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Hey there,
Apologies for the slow postings I will have to step up my blogging. The last week or so has been very active. We witnessed two Honduras world cup qualifying matches, the first a loss to the US and the second a victory against rival El Salvador. For the El Salvador match all the volunteers went to the local pub and watched the match on a projector they had set up. We were all decked out in Honduran fan gear due to the convenient exchange rate around here. (At the big Sunday market I purchased three Honduras jerseys and a [...]

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Week 1 in La Esperanza

June 6th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Hola!
This will be my first post since landing in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning.  The hotel we stayed at just outside the city was very nice, even equipped with a hottub, so it made for a nice transition.  The next day we made the 4 hour trek up into the mountains to the town of La Esperanza, where I will be residing for the another 5 weeks.  I would say that I was definately a little culture shocked for the first 2 days, but after getting used to taking showers out of a bucket and picking up a few Spanish words [...]

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Blog Test-run. 1 week to go.

May 26th, 2009 by John Caccavale

Hello world,
Tyler Caccavale here, just giving a test run of the old blog spot to get things going for next month.  I leave for Honduras next Tuesday early AM from Richmond and should arrive in capital city Tegucigalpa around 11:00am.  From there the adventure begins and I will make an effort to keep this journal regularly updated. 
I would like to take this chance to thank all of my supporters from home.  Without the generous contributions from every one of you I would not be able to assist the people La Esperanza as I hope to.  Thanks for all your help [...]

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