EXCITING WEEK!

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.