Men’s Health National Presentation

During reconnect, Helmuth, the Health Project Manager, invited me to be on the Men’s Health Team, which means that I would be part of the planning for the Men’s Health projects for Peace Corps at a national level. It turns out that the first event I would take part in with the team was a biggy. The day after the Rotary Club left I went to Teguc to help the team put on a National Men’s Health Presentation. The goal of the meeting was to present the Men’s Health teaching methodology developed by Peace Corps to national and international institutions in Honduras. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Health, USAID, ONUSIDA, the National Police and Military and other major institutions, which meant we had to make it perfect. I arrived Sunday night and the team was already hard at work. We worked late, went to bed late and woke up the next day at 5:30 to start working again. I personally woke up in a horrible mood and in no mood to work. I had just gotten over a bite on my foot and exhausting weekend, the last thing I wanted to do was work on five hours of sleep. Well, I got over it and we worked until about 10 pm on Monday. Tuesday was the big day, the event was held at the Clarion hotel in Teguc and everything went very smoothly. I didn’t have a large presentation role, so I helped out mostly with the behind the scenes logistic work, making sure all the little details were taken care of. In the end I enjoyed the whole event and the team was very pleased with the outcome. When I signed up for the Peace Corps I definitely did not see myself doing even planning for national meetings in fancy hotels attended by heads of organizations…but hey, not much of this experience has been what I expected it to be.
The Men´s Health Team, that´s me, second from the left.


After all the work was done we went to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner and I discovered they have amazing veggie burgers! Who knew? I was amazed and can’t wait to go back there. I also discovered a great Argentinean café with incredible sandwiches with real crusty gourmet bread, not of the Wonder Bread kind. The owner of the café also gives tango lessons, so next time I go to Teguc I am going to try to check them out. If the lessons are anywhere near as good as the food at her restaurant I am in luck.