Field Based Training... and whats to come!!!

Whats happening everyone? Its been a while again.. I know. This past week we had our field based training. That is when we go out and visit different volunteers in certain departments, states, in Guatemala. We met some awesome volunteers who are COS´ing (Close of Service). Throughout the week we went to go visit certain schools and played with the kids... as you can see. That is Josh and me. Those kids were awesome. And it was Carnavál that week...so we all got ambushed with eggs filled with confetti. Thursday was a day of stress for most of us. It was the day that we all had to do a health presentation to a certain grade at this random school. My topic was teeth...since there are several dentists in the family I thought I had sufficient knowledge on that... Nailed it!! On Friday, we went to go to some hot springs, and hung out with other volunteers. Now that was awesome. Gotta love Peace Corps. haha We returned to our perspective towns on Saturday.

This coming week on the 4th we go on our individual visit training. For me it will not be individual since the 4 of us who got the job position will be visiting the other 2 volunteers in that position. Should be an enlightening experience. And the big day is near... not my birthday... the day AFTER, the 12th, they finally tell us our site... where we all will be staying for the two years here in Guate. We´ll see how it goes. Hope to hear from you guys... at least some of you...hope all is well.

picture site for field base training....

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2354283&id=3314158&l=72aea

Kennedy´s Priomise!!

"We will only send abroad Americans who are wanted by the host country- who have a real job to do- and who are qualified to do that job. Programs will be developed with care, and after full negotiation, in order to make sure that the Peace Corps is wanted and will contribute to the welfare of other people. Our Peace Corps is not designed as an instrument of diplomacy or propaganda or ideological conflict. It is designed to permit our people to exercise more fully their responsibilities in the great common cause of world development."

John F. Kennedy Jr.
March 1, 1961

its been a while....

so just to show you the picture to the right is our huge loving family... of course we are still missing some this is only about a quarter of the group.

Its been a while since I have written a blog and so many things have happened.

First of all, I interviewed for this position, Municipal Coordinator, which is a pilot project, to hopefully make things more sustainable. Which is that is the Peace Corps, sustainability!! The responsibilities include:

Training of Teachers and Directors

Monitoring and Evaluating:

healthy habits

healthy attitudes

infrastructure projects

Overall fulfillment of the perfil

rincones de salud

health classes

cleanliness of school and kids

Technical Assistance:

always available for consultation, and provide extra teaching resources, ideas, etc

Extras: coordinating with CTA (principal), participating in district events, and helping the Centro de Salud with workshops

and most important SUSTAINABILITY!!

then there was the Mayan Ceremony. It was very insightful on how the indigenous people have their outlook on life. Some brief beliefs of theirs, which I think everyone should think to make this a better world: The basis of the relationship between man and nature is one of harmonious.

Visualiza que el equilibrio entre los elementos del cosmos hace posible la vida en general.

Existe una sola unidad entre Hombre y Naturaleza. En la naturaleza está presente el Creador y por eso hay un profundo respecto hacia ella.

The ceremony was given by two Mayan priests which the pictures can be found on facebook. I will be putting the website here for those that dont have facebook...

On Sunday, we, the trainees of Health, will be heading to our Field Base Training for a week. This is when we go around to different parts of the country and visit other volunteers and have interviews with our ´boss´so he knows which is the best site to send us. We will be staying in hotels for the whole week...WOOO!! paid for of course.

heres the website for the pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2349862&id=3314158&l=f8192Publicidad