My full name is Andrea Paulina Elvir Galvez and only my mom and my sister have ever called me nicknames that are lost in translation anyway so there’s no need to share them. I am from La Ceiba, Honduras and here are some pictures because I ALREADY MISS IT.
You can see this mountain on your way into town, from my kitchen window, and from mostly anywhere in town.
I would end up here every afternoon to watch the sunset (which is at 6:30 and not 8:30). It’s only three minutes away from my high school.
I don’t really know where in Honduras this is but I miss it.
This used to be a dock owned by Dole but was renovated by the city a few years back and it’s a great place to watch the sunset, eat mangos and get bit by mosquitoes while running into every single person you know.
This is also not my hometown but !!!
My journalism experience previous to college does not count for much since I “edited” a paper for a school of maybe a little over 150 high school students. I’ve been working for the Traveler and loving all the work. I really enjoyed the Mardi Gras story I wrote last semester for News 1. I focused on the cultural and initial religious aspects of the holiday and how it has evolved to be something separate from the church.
I enjoy singing, listening to music and playing my guitar (Roxy) and my ukelele. I love Taylor Swift, the Lumineers, Fall Out Boy, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Ed Sheeran, the 1975, Johnny Cash, Lorde, Alejandro Sanz, the Killers and Arctic Monkeys. My phone is so old and runs out of battery so easily that I have grown fond of listening to vinyl records as a way to preserve battery life but also to keep physical reminders of my favorite music. I also like reading novels, magazines and poetry. I do my makeup every morning to help me relax and start my day out with something I like. I want to travel so much more than I have and visit every museum I can to learn about art and culture I would have never been exposed to elsewhere.
If you’re reading this I also recommend you check out Guillermo Anderson. He is one of my country’s greatest artists, and while you may not be able to understand word for word what he says, I hope you get a taste of my people and culture through his music.
Professor Jordan has been reminding us every day this week that newspapers and the news are the only chance some people have at an education outside of school. I think that applies to data journalism because many of the processes used in data analysis allow us to simplify data in ways that make it easier for us to tell stories people might not have had access to if journalists did not pay attention to numbers and data in the way that we are forced to when practicing data journalism.
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