Field Based Training!

THE Group with our bosses (the more grown up looking ppl)

And this is my whole training group in Healthy Schools. And these pictures are from the fun we had after learning all day about other volunteers, their lives and what we´re getting ourselves into when we swear in and are on our own in 4 weeks. It´s still a mystery where I´ll be sent but I didn´t see any place that I would be miserable at. I did see some pretty amazing transformations of schools that were in the beginning stages before a volunteer was there and then how they looked after they were certified. I didn´t take pictures but when I get to my site you´ll see what I mean. Most places don´t even have water so it´s a challenge to brush teeth and wash hands if there isn´t water, no? So as you can see I have some pretty cool people in my group. We all get along REALLY well and have lots of fun whenever we get together. We danced, we laughed and played games and we got to know eachother A LOT better during last week. I feel really lucky to have such a great group of people to do this with.
This week has been pretty normal with spanish classes and meetings but next week we go out individually to visit volunteers to shadow them for a few days. I´m really excited about that too, it should be fun. I´ll try to take pictures of that too. I´m not doing very well with writing about what I´m doing here but I hope that these random pictures make up for it.

Samra and I after our first presentation our old Spanish teacher Chepe and the program secretary Sheny..

Josh, Samra and I during one of the MANY introductions we did at schools during FBT.

Travis, Rebecca S., Julia, Mark, Adrian, Joanna, ME. having fun at the hotel.

Joanna, Samra, Amanda, and Me again.

The redheads of the group(apparently I´m a redhead).

Me with the boys (minus Travis), Jarro, Josh, Adrian, Mark and Me (grrr).

Rebecca, Crystal, Sarah, Mark and Me.

One down...millions to go

Today we had our first presentation at our school. It went pretty well minus the deflating balloons the kids were playing with outside. There was a big party for Valentines Day and we all ate hot dogs (Mmmmmm) and pure sugar. Needless to say after our presentation we got the hell out of there. I didn´t get out without getting some sweaty sticky kisses from the kiddies, but I´ll take it since that´s all the love I´ll get this Valentines.
Summer seems to have arrived this week just as predicted. The sun is pretty sweltering and despite my ¨best¨ efforts (meaning the sunscreen in my face cream) I still get a little too much sun. I think I´m going to have to break out the flip-flops this afternoon. The mornings are still jacket weather and climbing up the mountian that my school sits upon would´ve been difficult to climb with anythingn less than hiking boots.
This weekend I plan on checking out the SDA church I found and may or may not be invited to lunch with this doctor who´s Health Store/Spa I went to this week and got a killer massage for half off (besides going to heaven, being an SDA has it´s perks). And then on Sunday we all pack our hippy backpacks and go out into the field to practice our skillz and see more of what we´re about to be immersed into.
Things are going well. Even though Spanish seems to be slow to get a handle on everything is good when the sun in shining and there are avocados to be eaten.

Picture Time!

So it´s been a couple of weeks and I´ve tried to think of something to write but I can´t think of anything worth posting. As a conselation prize I´ll post some pictures of friends, host family, my room, volcano, and weird relgious procession where men dress up like women, etc. Enjoy.