OK. We've now got three separate blogging parties in Central America. The international engineering class (featuring Jared Wehde) and the Women as Global Leaders class are in Guatemala. The UMR chapter of Engineers Without Borders is in Honduras.

Updates from the Women as Global Leaders class are being provided through a collective effort by Casey Duncan, Marian Christiansen and Rachel Sweringen:

Day 3... We started off the day going to an elementary school called John Wesley. The students ranged from grades 1-4. We gave our presentation on the importance of water filtration and sanitation. The students seemed to receive us well. After that we went to the orphanage before going back to the same school to talk to the junior high students. When we presented an activity for them to do they were quite skeptical. They were to build a tower out of one piece of paper and one piece of tape. Though these were the only materials given to them, many found things outside of that to make their towers stand up...like gum, rocks, and even quetzals.

Day 4... Today we went to another school where the students seemed to just love us. They istened intently to our presentation and then participated in the activity. Afterwards, many of them clung to Ashlee (Abbott) and weren't going to let her go. After that, we had a little break and hiked up to some of the Mayan ruins which date back to about 1200 B.C. There was actually a healing ceremony going on while we were there. After that we spent a little more time at the orphanage before making our way back to Chichi.