Actually, the whole clothes thing really doesn´t matter, but the four tshirts I brought are not doing the trick. A couple of us came into Panama city today to do some sight seeing and hit the abnoxiously large mall for some cheep clothes. I was successfull, so mom, don´t entrerpert this as a request for some of my clothes at home.
We are nearly halfway finished with our training... and it is going to go very fast. We are to spend 3 of the 6 weeks remaining out of our training community. On Wednesday I find out where my site will be for the coming 2 years. I am nervous to find out what I will be doing and where I will located. As of now I only know that I will be with an Indiginous community ( Ngabe Bugle). I went and visited a coffee volunteer last weekend in the Comarca. We stayed with his wonderfull family, (the beautiful children are in the included photo). We hiked alot, and I sweated more than I ever have before. But it is so beautiful that I didn´t mind. I think I got a pretty good snapshot of what being an agrobusiness coffee volunteer would be like. The Nobere people where very friendly, although a little more reserved than their latino counterparts. The site where I visited was beautiful, high in the mountains, much of which seems to remain unslashed and burned. The community was spred out and didn´t have anything resmebling a center.At first I was quite intimidated by the isolation, but after several days the 40 minute walk/hike seemed less significant. (although I can see the steep trails being more difficult in the rain season).
I am looking forward to getting started... all this training and theoretical information is getting old. At the same time, I hate to think about the 40 something volunteers being spred over the entire country. There will be some of us that will rately see eachother.
Well, I´ll post after I find out where I am going... I am finding that it is hard to sum up everything that is going on. I don´t really have the patience to do a play by play... lucky for you guys!
1 comments:
Hi Andi, Wow, it is so amazing that you are doing this. It brings you closer when I can read about your experience, though I realize its a pain to write. What can I send you while you are there?? Do you need anything, or just fun magazines etc?? We are all fine, and Noah is almost 2 months old now. Jerry and I are going to visit them in July, and will hopefully see Jeanine too. Hugs and Kisses, Aunt Ruthie
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