Week 6

So another week has passed in our training towns. Time is such an interesting contradiction for me here – at the end of ever week, I feel as if our training experience is moving so quickly. But every day feels like an eternity. Not in a bad way, just as if I every minute of my day has been devoted to learning or doing something.

So what has happened in the past week? We had our site fair last weekend – a day when all of the aspirantes/trainees get to hear people talk about how good each potential site is. Current volunteers talked about the work that needs to be done, what the climate of each site is like, which sites have internet or cell phone service, which are in the country and which are more urban.

It was an interesting process for us because, as a married couple, we have little choice in the matter. Peace Corps has known for some time now where we will be living because with two people in the same site, they needed to make sure there were two work opportunities, a host family willing to have two people live with them, etc.. But of course, they can’t tell us where we are going before the other volunteers find out. We‘ll find out this coming Friday.

We also had another language proficiency interview this week to find out how far we have come with Spanish in the last 6 weeks. Both Matt and I entered at ‘Novice High,’ according to the system that Peace Corps uses to evaluate language level. Matt has been doing amazingly well with his language progression, and while I am a bit slower, I think that things have been going well for me too. We’ll see. They tell us on Monday where we are at right now.

Other than that, things have been moving along well. Last weekend we visited the river with other aspirantes from Matt’s town and some host family members. And yesterday we visited Volcan Masaya, near Managua.

Sorry, but our pictures are not uploading right now. We´ll try to post them again soon!