Independence Day Parade and Inauguration of Murals

September 15, 2011

Las Estrellas soccer team before they marched in our town’s independence day parade. We borrowed the uniforms from the school.

Here are the little kids from the pre-school in the Independence Day parade. Their signs say, “Don’t cut down the trees” and “Trees give life”.

Here is the group of students who dressed up as members of the community for the parade. There is a policeman, a soldier, a housewife, a farmer, the town president, a teacher, a nurse, a pastor, the president of the water board, the president of the PTA, and there is even the Peace Corps volunteer! Naturally, they picked the whitest girl in school represent me. (Far left, front) I giggled so much when she told me who she was.

My boss, Menelio (far right). He came to visit La Tajeada and to help inaugurate the new murals. Here he is talking about the importance of our mountain as a water source for southern Honduras and why we need to take care of it.