hello all time for another update....
So I have been here for little less than a month. It is starting to feel like home. It's been a really slow process but it's getting easier. I am finally starting to feel a part of my host family, laughing with my 8 and 11 year old host brothers and sharing laughter at the dinner table. They are a little crazy like my family back home, but I like it :) The rain is picking up and our power flashed on Friday during the thunder storms. It's pretty amazing watching the storms come in over the mountains. Life is so different here but I like it :)
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
One Day at a time
Hello again everone,
I have made it to an internet cafe inorder to update my blog,. Life is going well, weather is 80 and sunny most days with a few days of rain mixed in. This experience is about as challenging as I thougth it would be. So many times I wish I could back out and then it would be so much easier and I could be with my friends and family but I have to remind myself why I am doing it. I have come here to grow, to learn about myself, to learn another culture and language and to help people. I am still in the phase of transition and time will make the adjustment easier.
My host family is great but it´s been a challenge to converse with them. I am lacking some confidence in speaking spanish. I don´t want to mess up but I know I have to so I just need to work on putting myself out there. Conversations are about superficial things right now like the weather and how their day went but I hope with time to broaden our topics.
We went out on Thursday to visit a volunteer that is just finishing up her service. It was nice to see what life is like on the other side of training. It helps make my long days of classes bearable when I know what is coming on the other side. She is working about 2 hrs from where I am now. She lives in the city but hikes up in the mountains to work with people. It´s beautiful out there and hopefully I can post some pictures sometime soon.
I added more picutres to the link above, check it out!
I have made it to an internet cafe inorder to update my blog,. Life is going well, weather is 80 and sunny most days with a few days of rain mixed in. This experience is about as challenging as I thougth it would be. So many times I wish I could back out and then it would be so much easier and I could be with my friends and family but I have to remind myself why I am doing it. I have come here to grow, to learn about myself, to learn another culture and language and to help people. I am still in the phase of transition and time will make the adjustment easier.
My host family is great but it´s been a challenge to converse with them. I am lacking some confidence in speaking spanish. I don´t want to mess up but I know I have to so I just need to work on putting myself out there. Conversations are about superficial things right now like the weather and how their day went but I hope with time to broaden our topics.
We went out on Thursday to visit a volunteer that is just finishing up her service. It was nice to see what life is like on the other side of training. It helps make my long days of classes bearable when I know what is coming on the other side. She is working about 2 hrs from where I am now. She lives in the city but hikes up in the mountains to work with people. It´s beautiful out there and hopefully I can post some pictures sometime soon.
I added more picutres to the link above, check it out!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
1 Week in country
sorry, I 've been here for a little over a week and I have yet to update this so here it goes. It has been a challenging experience that I have needed to be take a day at a time. It's getting easier to be here.
I am living with a host family now and have been since last Saturday. They are very welcoming and have a lot of patience with me learning spanish as I stumble through my communications with them. We have spanish class everyday in our communities and we also have some techinical training. There is a group of 5 of us that are about the same level. We all live with host families in the same community. We have class until about 4:30 or 6 depending on the day. After that and on the weekends we hang out at the soccer field or go to the basketball courts. There is definately less to do here than in the states. I have gotten some good reading in with more of the free time :) Sorry this is so short but hopefully I can get into more of a routine.
Check out this link for pictures
http://s898.photobucket.com/albums/ac188/demullk/
I am living with a host family now and have been since last Saturday. They are very welcoming and have a lot of patience with me learning spanish as I stumble through my communications with them. We have spanish class everyday in our communities and we also have some techinical training. There is a group of 5 of us that are about the same level. We all live with host families in the same community. We have class until about 4:30 or 6 depending on the day. After that and on the weekends we hang out at the soccer field or go to the basketball courts. There is definately less to do here than in the states. I have gotten some good reading in with more of the free time :) Sorry this is so short but hopefully I can get into more of a routine.
Check out this link for pictures
http://s898.photobucket.com/albums/ac188/demullk/
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