We're in the Carson City news!

Warren & I have been living with our host families a week now in the Department (like a state) of Carazo.  This is my first weekend joining him at his host site - he will come to my site next week and then we will rotate each weekend.  His is more rural than my site and we both have great host families and food (I don't think I'll be losing weight in these first 3 months). 

 

Next week we start meeting up with the teachers we will co-teach with...Warren for 6th graders, and me with 4th graders.  I got a chance to briefly observe "my" class Thursday and got pretty excited about it.  The teacher is enthusiastic and welcoming and there are about 20-25 in the class, more boys than girls.  We are there for the Natural Science classes and will work with them on a school garden, a compost pile, and little tree nursery (I don't know what trees yet).

 

We've got lots of stuff to read up on, so we're "doing our homework" today.

 

A Facebook friend posted an article there that she saw in an online Carson City news site that talks a bit about our Peace Corps thing.  Here's the link:

 

http://www.carsonnow.org/story/08/22/2014/carson-city-couple-picked-peace-corps-assignment-nicaragua

 

See you later!

 

Anita

Starting with Our Host Families in Nicaragua!

Have to leave soon, but we are heading off to our host families.  Our group of volunteers (41 of us!) is great and I'm really feeling excited about this!   Probably no internet for at least a week now, and probably only once per week in general.

Ana  and Jose

Heading to Nicaragua via Washington DC!!!! Finally

We are waiting in the Salt Lake City airport for our flight to Washington DC. 

We got up at 4 am to be on time for our 6:30 flight out of Reno - when our shuttle was just a minute away I got a call that our plane was delayed, too late to turn back for a little more shut-eye; we'd already checked out.

Our flight was changed to around noon, and our arrival in DC was changed from 4 pm to after 11 pm.  We're continuing to get patience and flexibility training as we continue our Peace Corps journey.

Tomorrow we have training in DC from noon to 7 pm tomorrow, after having breakfast with my second cousin Nicole, who recently served in Peace Corps (PC) in Ghana.

Not much time here and have been having trouble getting internet with any speed to it, so that's all for now.

We will be picked up at 2:30 am on Wednesday from our DC hotel, along with the rest of the folks in our PC Nicaragua group - at least 23 folks, maybe more.

More later....not sure how much later....depends on internet access and time.

Anita