Moving along

Time seems to be flying by. Tomorrow we're watching a health charla at our health center as well as giving a charla in the afternoon to our advisers. On Friday we're meeting up with our promoters to discuss their charla, and next Wednesday we're giving one (in spanish) to our promoters and others at the health center.

In less than ten days, we're going on our Field Based Training, where we're split up into two groups and sent out to live and work with other volunteers for a week. I am really looking forward to that.

Last night however, after class Meredith and I stayed late and watched an ultimate frisbee game with a volunteer Juanita (Jane). She's been here for almost a year, and is one of the most frank and honest people I've met. I think this is a good thing, but she definitely doesn't sugar coat things, which I ultimately appreciate. The three of us had a nice chat over a beer, and she talked about how she didn't know any spanish until she got to her site. Once she arrived (it's a tiny, tiny indigenous town) she admitted that she couldn't understand anything, but she quickly learned. She's super fluent now and seems to be progressing with her project which is good and even starting to learn a Mayan language.