Starting Work

Well, after our first 3 months in our site, things are starting to pick up speed. We were told that volunteers usually spend their first three months doing nothing (besides just getting to know people and getting aquainted with the area) and then things just naturally pick up. I didn't quite believe it, but it's true. We went from having maybe two things in our schedule every week in addition to working on our house and hanging out with our host family, to having several community meetings set up with our counterpart, 8 sections (about 170 students) of agriculture classes to teach at the local high school every other week, 3 informal English classes a week at the high school, a grant proposal to write, family gardens to start with local producers and their families, and at least one week long Peace Corps sponsored workshop a month for the next three months! Yikes! I was actually beginning to enjoy sleeping in and reading in my hammock. It doesn't look like we'll have much time for that anymore.