Too Busy to Settle In
Hola--
My first week of training went well. Besides language training and cultural education, there are four technical components:
1) Environmental education in the local school, both working with children directly as well as developing new curiculum and techniques with the teachers
2) Writing a grant to fund a project at the school
3) Creating an emergency action plan for the school
4) Developing a project at a home for street kids in the next town
Also there are field trips to visit volunteers working in the "campo", security and health seminars, and all kinds of fun. And all this must be completed in twelve weeks, not months (as I published in my last post), thank you Mom for clarifying. It's plenty to keep us from being idle!
Tomorrow is Sunday, our day off, though we will be waking up at five to participate in a "faena", a community work day. We will be picking up garbage on the main access road to the town. Later on I will attend mass with my host family, and help with some chores around the house.
Some readers expressed interest as to the conditions of Chepe and Luvia's home. There is electricity, a small color TV, and a two-burner gas stove. Water comes out of a pipe outside, but at random times, so one must scramble to fill barrels when it begins to run--you never know when it will come on again.
Love to all, and I will try to write weekly during the three month training period.
My first week of training went well. Besides language training and cultural education, there are four technical components:
1) Environmental education in the local school, both working with children directly as well as developing new curiculum and techniques with the teachers
2) Writing a grant to fund a project at the school
3) Creating an emergency action plan for the school
4) Developing a project at a home for street kids in the next town
Also there are field trips to visit volunteers working in the "campo", security and health seminars, and all kinds of fun. And all this must be completed in twelve weeks, not months (as I published in my last post), thank you Mom for clarifying. It's plenty to keep us from being idle!
Tomorrow is Sunday, our day off, though we will be waking up at five to participate in a "faena", a community work day. We will be picking up garbage on the main access road to the town. Later on I will attend mass with my host family, and help with some chores around the house.
Some readers expressed interest as to the conditions of Chepe and Luvia's home. There is electricity, a small color TV, and a two-burner gas stove. Water comes out of a pipe outside, but at random times, so one must scramble to fill barrels when it begins to run--you never know when it will come on again.
Love to all, and I will try to write weekly during the three month training period.
posted by John Engler at 5:02 PM
2 Comments:
Hello John,
Glad to hear you're busy and with diverse stuff. I look forward to finding out how the experience focuses in for you, what you pick... Made any friends? How are the locals treating you?
Love Dallas
Hi John: have copied your postings for the congregation bulletin board to let folks know how you fare. Hopefully you have a camera with you and can post the occasional photo so we can see where you are living and working. You and the community where you live are in our prayers. Pastor Rebecca
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