gifts for host family

January 30, 2007 by Erin

I have a question and I am hoping that someone who might read this might have some suggestions. I am leaving in a week to volunteer in Honduras and to live with a host family there. I need a few ideas for small gifts to bring over to my host family. They have three daughters, ages 9, 8, and 4. They need to be small (because I have to pack them) and cheap (because going to Honduras is expensive.) I’d love some ideas for things that reflect fun aspects of American culture.

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on January 30, 2007 at 7:58 pm Dan

If it wasn’t so easy to find over there jewelry, but there has got to be something better than that I just can’t come up with anything.
on January 31, 2007 at 9:30 am Doc

How about a Slinky?
on January 31, 2007 at 5:25 pm Omid

I would take some essential oils. They are so useful and fun. Lavender oil, for example, is a nice perfume, skin toner and air freshener! Do young Honduran chicas like that?
Hi Erin!
Signed,
Omid
on February 7, 2007 at 10:37 am erin

nice ideas. I especially liked the slinkey. i almost went for it before i realized that they may not have stairs, and my family doesn’t have any. I went with flow and it worked out really well. the girls enjoyed playing with it and couldn’t understand why there was such a strange thing in this world.
on February 7, 2007 at 11:15 pm Dan

Flow? You mean Floam right, which used to be associated with Nickelodeon, but is on its own now I think…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Compounds#Nickelodeon_Floam

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Erin Miller

Life, Travel and Public Health