One month has come and gone! I can´t believe this time last month I was shoving last minute tidbits into my suitcase and saying goodbye to my folks. Time really is flying. Training has been very intense and yet very fun so far. Craig and Jill and I have managed to form a very devoted youth group. We have about 20 teens who we meet with once a week, 1 day to play soccer and the other day to have health related presentations and prepare our final practice. The youth group chose a small project we will be working on with them, and they chose to put on a play! I was very excited when they choose that. They will be writing their own scripts and we have broken them up into 3 groups to work on skits based on the themes of drugs, love and trust, and teen pregnancy. They started writing during our meeting yesterday and their ideas are looking great!! We have also gotten some of the high school students involved and those groups are working on the skits about family violence and HIV_AIDS. They are going to present their plays during the end of March or beginning of April. I´ll be sure to include pics of those performances.
Other than working with the youth group we have been preparing small presentations (charlas) to give in the Health Center and classes to give to the middle schoolers. I have given charlas on the Importance of hand washing and Nutrition. They actually went a lot better than I expected. The 3 of use in my group also gave a class on STIs to a sixth grade class. That was interesting, and the vocab was extremely hard. Next week I´ll be giving a class on self esteem to fifth graders. They ages in the grades are pretty close to those in the US, except people only have to go to 9th grade to get a HS diploma and 2 more years if they want a specialty, in areas like teaching or computers.
On sunday I will be leaving for the Northern part of Nicaragua to visit a volunteer and see was life in the Peace Corps is like outside of the bubble our training has produced for us. I´m heading to La Dalhia, Maltagapa. I´m excited to see up close examples of what health volunteers are working on.
Finally: Happy 60th Birthday Dad!!! I wish I could celebrate with you. And congrats to Zach and Carrie Anne for their wedding tomorrow!
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the plays sound awesome! glad to hear everything is going well so far.
Hey, Liz, It's nice to hear all you are involved with. We had a nice time at the celebration for Zach and Carrie Anne. Their friends were very impressive in their reflections/ wishes for them. Jessica was there. She looks great. Talk to you soon. Love, Mom
It's La Dalia in Matagalpa. Get it right Liz! :) ... y si, ahora estoy leyendo su blog. Boo for mountains, yay for beaches!!!!
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