Evan Courtney

This June, I’ve got the opportunity to go to Honduras as part of The Fields – The 1814 Project.
This will be my third time to Honduras in 5 years (2nd time) to the same village.
I’m pumped.

2006

2009

This time going, I’m going to be prepared.
My spanish is very poor. I mean really poor.
The first time I was in Latin American, I asked an airport security where our guitars were, that we checked on, and I mistakenly asked for the bathroom.

I took a couple years of Spanish in high school just like everyone else.
But I didn’t retain any of it, once the test or quiz was done.
Because I didn’t have a use for it.
Now I do.

I want to connect.
I want to relate.

For the past month or so, I’ve been using Rosetta Stone.

Besides just knowing more of the language.
One of the recent episodes of This American Life called “My Pen Pal”, has really challenged me to know more about their culture and history.

The story is about a ten-year-old girl from small town Michigan named Sarah York, and how she became pen pals with a man who was considered an enemy of the United States, a dictator, a drug trafficker, and a murderer: Manuel Noriega.

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