Comments on: “Que hora es?” “Ya. Ya, o mas tarde”

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:33:23 +0000

Gloria,
Thanks for your comment. I never meant to insinuate that Hondurans were anything less than caring, amazing people in general. I am not sure what in my blog made you think that I held the people that I worked with there in anything less than the highest regard. I loved learning about a different culture and I enjoyed traveling in old school buses. One of the aims of my blog is to introduce people in the United States — who unlike you, may never have lived or traveled in Honduras, to the different styles of traveling that are possible there. Some people might want to take air conditioned buses and stay at the Hilton, and some might want to take school buses and stay with a host family, it’s entirely up to an individual’s preference, though I think that everyone should push themselves out of their comfort zone once in a while. But comfort zones exist in different places for different people. Some people might not ever take a trip to Honduras if they didn’t know that the fancier options are available and I think that if the choice is between not going, or going, but staying in nice, more familiar places, then people should go, because at least that way they would get to see some beautiful areas and meet some amazing Hondurans.
– Erin

By: Gloria Sabillon

Gloria Sabillon — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:36:08 +0000

Erin, this is one thing I’ve never done, write a coment on a blog. I am a 54-year-old woman living in the USA for a very long time. I went to college and grad school in NY in my late 20s; therefore most of my classmates were girls with your type of thinking. What I mean is that you come out of school with a great sense of being able to change the world and do good, but deep inside your cultural, social and economic background prevents you from seeing the world from a whole different perspective. It’s too bad that what you did with your hands you destroyed with your feet. Your comments and some of your friends comments do not seem to be appropriate of a future medical professional. If in the future you want to have a vatication, tell your parents, or friends to give you some donations and you can travel by plane, rather than on those “old american school buses” eat at wonderful restaurants, and stay at the Hilton or any expensive hotel. I guarantee you will have a great time!!! Honduras is beautiful and the people are not savages!!! have you ever been to Rome??? if you have I am sure you were able to smell the blood of the thousands of people who were kill in the Colliseum, and we can go on and on with world history, because cruelty, poverty and empty minds happen everywhere.
I do not mean to insult you. However, as honduran I felt you were looking down to my country and over all, my people….. Remember one thing…. that one that judges, is up there, so rather than looking down, make it a good habit to look up, you will feel much better, especially after doing something good!!!!

By: nicole

nicole — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:33:14 +0000

maybe i should think more about how to spell my own name.

By: nicoel

nicoel — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:31:59 +0000

A visit to Honduras was sounding pretty fabulous until I came to your blog. Botflies, Lice, and scabies? Sheesh, maybe i should think twice before complaining about some harmless snow.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:30:36 +0000

Fixed the image links.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:00:46 +0000

how is it that i find out from dan’s blog that you got in to Columbia?? Congrats!! you are freaking amazing..wish we had time to talk because i have a lot to tell you….when the hell are you coming back to the states…hasn’t it been 4 months yet? it feels like 4 years. keep up the awesomeness..love ya

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:04:42 +0000

Actually FTP is not secure enough so it isn’t even running on this server… but all the content and pages can be edited through the blog admin interface so if Erin shared her password you could always help her out… hehe We do have SFTP, but we are getting ready to shut down this box, to get up and running on a new nicer Linux server.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:37:00 +0000

Clearly, the solution here is to give me ftp access.
I promise I wouldn’t break anything, not anything big anyways. =P

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:21:47 +0000

Actually you want to make them embedded images… pop ups are bad for a few reasons, but in this case with really large photos they are even worse. I will fix the image links for you when I have some time.

By: erin

erin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:56 +0000

Yeah, sorry J-man, I am having some trouble with the pop-upness of the images too — not sure exactly what went wrong. I think I put them in as pop-up images, and not embedded (that’s correct, right Dan?) but I must have made a mistake somewhere. Glad that you still enjoyed them. Yeah, silly base 20, at least they had a 0.