I'm back at the PC office after my site visit! Las Yayas is absolutely beautiful. Theres a lot of agriculture in my area- they grow platanos, beans, and onions. I can see a mountain range (the Cordilleras perhaps?) in the distance, and you need to take a motorcycle ride to get into my community because it's pretty rural. The people are really amazing- everytime I visited a house I came back with an armfull of fruit! The accent is VERY different though, I'm having a really hard time understanding anyone or having anyone understand anything I'm saying. I feel like they're not even speaking Spanish sometimes. But hopefully I'll be able to figure out the accent pretty soon...or else. One funny thing that happened during my visit is that I casually mentioned to my neighbor that I had never tried guinea (guinea hen) before. The next day, guess what was slaughtered for lunch... and it was delicious.
My community is very organized with health promoters, an aquaduct, latrines, and very active community groups. I'm going to be working with the community groups to strengthen their capacity, and during the first 3 months I'll be conducting a community diagnostic to assess the needs and strengths of the community. I'm really close (20 minutes moto ride) from San Juan, which is a pretty nice city. So if I need anything, like internet, printing, etc I can just head into San Juan instead of going all the way back to the capital. Looks like a pretty good site!
Swear-in is tomorrow. I can't believe how fast training went by! Finally moving from being a trainee to a real volunteer!
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