Well, this is officially the end of my first week. Some comments:
The grant issue is hard. I do not speak the best spanish and everything is in spanish. Plus, the people working on the grant with me are not all on the same page and I am really thinking their proposal is not what the UNDP has in mind and we will not get this grant. I guess we will see. It is also hard because we only had a week to put this together.
My computer crashed. The harddrive is gone. I got nothing saved. I need to buy a new one. This majorly sucks.
I am going to start teaching English to my own class next Sunday. Should be interesting. Hopefully they pay attention.
Today I went with Claire (the PCV next to me) and her environmental youth group to a small waterfall in the river to swim and pick up trash. It was fun, but it continues to amaze me how different our towns are even though they are very close to eachother. For example, most of the men that came with us (to help carry the trash, but more to gawk at the girls) were fairly sleazy, by American standards anyway. None of the older men could read or write. The youngs girls (12 to 13 years old) all had boyfriends that were older than 18 and they were expected to marry at 14 or 15. In my town, nearly everyone can read, the men are polite, and many people my age are just getting married or waiting.
Tomorrow my host brother, Claire, and some other friends here and I are going to another part of the river. At least everything here is beautiful. Hopefully I will get a new computer fairly soon and be able to send more pictures.
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Though you don't speak the best Spanish but I'd bet you've improved a whole lot. Proud of you, girl!
Sorry about your computer, where will you go to buy a new one? Check out some free online storage sites to upload your files routinely when you have Internet access and electricity.
Glad to know that your town is a much better place than the one you visited. I can't wait to see more pictures. Take care, be safe. Oh, what about this English teaching, who are all in your class?
Getting a computer is easy thanks to my Grandma. She is getting one in the states for me and sending it to my bosses APO address. Much faster and safer than getting one here. As for my English class. It will be whoever wants to come, but I have a feeling it will be mostly high school and university students. They have the most ambition and realize the value of knowing English.
Gramcracker said she mailed your computer off today. I hope you get it soon and I hope you get the chocolate and DVDs that I sent too. I have a nasty sinus infection now so I'm just being lazy. p.s. the word verification to post this is 'nixon'. haha
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