We got our site assignment today! We will be in the Department (like a state) of Jinotega, in the north of Nicaragua. A big part of our jobs will be co-planning & co-teaching Environmental Education in an elementary school. We won't decide on which grades until later, but the options are 3rd through 6th grade.
I still have reports to finish, so this again is brief. We head to our sites for a visit next week, so there will be photos later.
The climate is cooler there, but not cold, from what I've heard. We will have a separate space and will probably be able to cook and also have a little garden (likely a good place for growing kale, with its cooler weather.
Anyway, bye for now.
Here's a link to some brief information:
http://www.nicaragua.com/jinotega-region/
We'll be in the southern part of Jinotega.
Hasta luego!
Anita
In a couple of days we will find out our site assignment - where in Nicaragua we will be for the next 2 years starting in November!
Warren and I will be living together on site - we'll have to work to be sure we keep up our Spanish - but will have different schools and teachers that we'll be working with.
Training is the most intense time - 3 months to teach us a ton of stuff about Nicaragua, co-planning and co-teaching, making an organic school garden with our students (and learning what pests we will be battling), integrating into the community, LOTS of Spanish classes of 3-4 students (usually 3 days or more/week, 6 hrs/day), homework, "charlas" (talks), and "practicums" - mostly related to our organic gardens, tree nurseries, and organic composting. I've got 4th grade kids that I'm co-teaching, and Warren has 6th grade (Natural Sciences).
Anyway, I have reports and a CV (in Spanish) to do, so going to sign off, but will let you know later where we are going.
Next week we will do a site visit and actually SEE where we'll be - you KNOW I'll take pictures - posting them, of course, is another thing......but things should be less hectic once we're on site - or so we've been told.
I'm going to stop here, because this already froze up on me once...twice, and I want to get something on here to let you know we are still here and fine.
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