Post FBT pre Assignments

First off some more Field Based Training recap:

We spent the week working and playing pretty hard. The girlies on the trip with me were AMAZING...We went with the Pastores crowd, so quick shout-out to Stacy, Haley and Courtney. Stacy who had the Big D (diarrhea) all week and Haley who single handedly put back a bottle of wine, and Courtney for making some BOLLA guac. We put together delicious stuffed peppers in our swanky hostel in Xela as it had a kitchen.

The hostel itself in Xela was great. We were supposed to be in a different hostel, however when the first group arrived, it was quickly discovered that this 'hostel' was in fact a brothel and they were quickly evacuated (apparently Ryan still had his open bottle of vodka in hand) and moved into Xela to Casa Argentina.

So we lucked out.

Secondly, post FBT fallout:

OK, so as of now I feel like we're almost in limbo here. We've gone through field based training, we've given and are giving charlas, we've worked with volunteers and are ready to go...however we still have to wait until the 1st before we get our assignments. I'm not saying we don't have stuff to do, we're still very busy and always working. But our brains seem to always be thinking about the future, we're not really focused on our work here in Duenas because our future is elsewhere, we just don't know where yet. We're meeting with our Tech Trainer David tomorrow, and I THINK with our program manger Basilio as well (communication could be better at the moment, I think he came to our town this morning, but we were down in Jocotenango at a La AzoteA Finca y Centro Cultural....obviously -which was really cool by the way, it had a Mayan Music Museum and a coffee tour which included FREE coffee at the end...lord it tasted good). But I suppose that's what you get for living in Guate.

Also, I am really excited for the 4th of July party being held in Santa Lucia. We'll be able to meet more volunteers and by then we'll know where we're going and we can meet up with people who live near us (our future neighbors!). It should be a great time.

Until next time, Peace!