I am so sorry for the long pauses in between post, as training is begining to wind down so is our free time! but so much has happened since my last post that i will try to bring everyone up to speed! this is the last week of spanish classes for me, so we spent the morning at a macademia farm, learning about all the amazing things macademia nuts can do for your health and the environment....they do a lot! after the tour we received complementary facial with macademia nut oil ( a very nice bday present if i do say so myself!) and had macademia nut butter pancakes with blue berry pie! again a very nice way to start my 23rd year!
this past weekend we had a free day in antigua, which was a blast as always because we get to hang out with everyone from our training group without structure, which is something that is arare commodity here! we spent the day eating n beautiful courtyards, drinking good coffee, and people watching in the park. i am still working on my bargaining skills and i have to say that they are also improving poco a poco!
this previous week was an exciting one because we found out our site mates, i am very very happy with who PC chose for me, she is from minnisota and loves march maddness, so i think we are going to work out fine. 8 people will either be working solo or with another volunteer already in site! after we found out our partners we had a NGO savanger hunt in antigua and chemaltenango to find ngo that will potentially be good partners in our site. I learned a lot about resources in antigua that could definitely be applicable to what i will be doing where ever my site is!
the next two weeks are going to be very busy and exciting. instead of doing our site visit next week :( we are going to go and stay with a volunteer for a couple of days to see what life is really like in the life of a healthy schools volunteer. which i am looking forward to! and then within the following week, we learn mayan languages, find out our site and swear in! i can't believe that training is almost over!
i hope everyone is doing well and that it is starting to warm up for you! i was happy to see that the tarheels prevailed over duke! HEEL YEAH! haha, i will try to be more consistant in my blog post! miss you all! hasta luego!
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