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Looking ahead


As our big Tech Week comes to a close, both of us are anxiously looking forward to next week and the exciting events it will bring. Here’s a look at what’s coming up:

Tuesday: Our friend Kristi and I have asked to be in charge of our session on classroom management during Tuesday’s tech class. Our tech trainer Becky has kindly given us pretty much free reign, so we’ve put together a panel of “experienced” teachers (those of us that have taught prior to Peace Corps) that will discuss their classroom management experiences and strategies. We’re very excited about this and hope that it will prove helpful for our fellow trainees!

Wednesday: Site assignment day! This much-awaited event involves all of us trainees traveling to a recreational camp area outside of San José where we will, at 9:00 a.m., be told where we will be spending the next 2 years of our lives. We’ll be given information about our new communities, jobs, and host families, and then we’ll have the rest of the morning to celebrate and have fun swimming, playing soccer, Frisbee, ping-pong and foosball. We can hardly wait!

Thursday: Thanksgiving! We’ll be in class all day in Tarbaca, but we’ll hopefully be able to communicate with many of our loved ones that day, which will be wonderful. On this day, Kevin will be thinking of how badly the Lions are losing.

Sunday: 7 of us from La Fila have planned a traditional Thanksgiving feast for our 6 host families. We’ll be cooking a turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pies, biscuits…. it’ll be great! Right now I’m working on some creative way to impart the story and meaning of Thanksgiving to our families here. I’m thinking paper turkeys with Thanksgiving history on the back, maybe some pilgrim action?

As you can see, we’ve got some super exciting events coming up! This weekend we’re going on yet another wonderful adventure with our host family, this time to a volcano. We started decorating for Christmas tonight (no, it’s never too early) and we were given our very own stockings to use for our pre-Christmas celebrations with our wonderful host family. They are so good to us!

Thank you for all of your emails! It’s so wonderful to get news from home.

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