Hola!! I’m half-way through week 4 of training and we just found out where our sites will be for the next two years!! I´ll be on an island near Costa Rica!!!
We’re definitely getting excited to start the real work, training keeps us very busy. On Sunday we had our first free day. My host sister, Iris, and a couple of her friends took me to Panama City. (The picture on the left is Iris, me, and a PC friend, Amy in front of the canal.) It was a great day that didn’t feel much like Peace Corps. We got to see the city from the 38th floor of an apartment building, walk around Casco Viejo- the historical part of the city, see the canal up close, and go to a movie. It was “bien nice” as they would say. My host family is great and they have already insisted I return for Christmas.
This coming weekend we leave for two weeks of travel, one for culture week- to an area similar to where we will eventually live, and another for technical week- the TEA group is going to an island where there is sea turtle tourism. It’s a pretty sweet deal to be in the tourism group because we get to visit lots of tourism sites for our training!
In training we’re currently learning more about teaching ESL and on Friday I’ll start language classes to learn Ngobe Bugle- the indigenous language spoken in Bocas del Toro.
We’re definitely getting excited to start the real work, training keeps us very busy. On Sunday we had our first free day. My host sister, Iris, and a couple of her friends took me to Panama City. (The picture on the left is Iris, me, and a PC friend, Amy in front of the canal.) It was a great day that didn’t feel much like Peace Corps. We got to see the city from the 38th floor of an apartment building, walk around Casco Viejo- the historical part of the city, see the canal up close, and go to a movie. It was “bien nice” as they would say. My host family is great and they have already insisted I return for Christmas.
This coming weekend we leave for two weeks of travel, one for culture week- to an area similar to where we will eventually live, and another for technical week- the TEA group is going to an island where there is sea turtle tourism. It’s a pretty sweet deal to be in the tourism group because we get to visit lots of tourism sites for our training!
In training we’re currently learning more about teaching ESL and on Friday I’ll start language classes to learn Ngobe Bugle- the indigenous language spoken in Bocas del Toro.
