I'm currently sitting in a convenant after our easiest day of training. We finially had the first opportunity to go into town, which is the capital city. We had administrative and health training this morning, then spent the afternoon on a scavenger hunt throughtout the city. We discovered upon asking for help finding our goals how friendly people are here. While wandering after fininsh the scavenger hunt, it seems that you can get everything in the Capital that's in the states, its just may be more expensive.
We have been staying and training a bit out of the city at a retreat center, that is run by nuns. Its a beautiful place up on the hill so you can see Casteries and the ocean below. The nuns cook amazing meals for us, so we are getting a little spoiled for the future. We have hot water and showers in our rooms, I can't believe it, granted that hot water drips out and changes to cold quickly. The weather is in the 80's, and can get a bit hot in the sun, but we don't really have more than 15 mins outside in the afternoon cause we're busy with sessions.
So far its been a great experience, a little more taken care of then I expected. The other people I'm with are a lot like the AU population, there are some really awesome people that you could see being best friends with and others that are like where are your social skills?
We had one girl not get on the plane from Miami to here. I actually had dinner with her the night before and talked about the peace corps not being for everyone. She seemed pretty cool, but wasn't going to my island and it seemed like the right deciscion for her.
I found out that I will be living in a east coast town that every says is a lot of fun, and have a big fish fry. I will be working at a Secondary School, but don't know what I will be doing exactly. It seems like a really good placement for me and I'm pretty excited about it. Monday we seperate from the other island volunteers and moving in with our home stays, which should give us our first culture shock. It seems like it will be really helpful for us, so we can learn how to cook with lemons bigger than grapefruits, bread fruit, amoung many of the other native things here I have never seen.
We have been staying and training a bit out of the city at a retreat center, that is run by nuns. Its a beautiful place up on the hill so you can see Casteries and the ocean below. The nuns cook amazing meals for us, so we are getting a little spoiled for the future. We have hot water and showers in our rooms, I can't believe it, granted that hot water drips out and changes to cold quickly. The weather is in the 80's, and can get a bit hot in the sun, but we don't really have more than 15 mins outside in the afternoon cause we're busy with sessions.
So far its been a great experience, a little more taken care of then I expected. The other people I'm with are a lot like the AU population, there are some really awesome people that you could see being best friends with and others that are like where are your social skills?
We had one girl not get on the plane from Miami to here. I actually had dinner with her the night before and talked about the peace corps not being for everyone. She seemed pretty cool, but wasn't going to my island and it seemed like the right deciscion for her.
I found out that I will be living in a east coast town that every says is a lot of fun, and have a big fish fry. I will be working at a Secondary School, but don't know what I will be doing exactly. It seems like a really good placement for me and I'm pretty excited about it. Monday we seperate from the other island volunteers and moving in with our home stays, which should give us our first culture shock. It seems like it will be really helpful for us, so we can learn how to cook with lemons bigger than grapefruits, bread fruit, amoung many of the other native things here I have never seen.
