By Alisha
We are almost done with our first week of training! Micah and I have been really busy with training and getting to know our host family. Training is pretty much a full time job with a variety of workshops on development, culture and language, heath, safety, and more. From 8:00am to 5:00pm we are usually at the training site, which is about a 25 minute, walk/bus ride from our house. Micah and I feel really lucky to be living with such a great host family. They have already had two previous PC trainees live with them so our presence in the house isn’t new to them and they are very understanding with my lack of Spanish. We have been spending most nights with our host family talking about the day and trying catch up on reading training materials. We are looking forward to this weekend when we have some free time! My host mom is studying cosmetology and (from my understanding) is going to be taking me to a nearby town for a pedicure this weekend because a friend of hers needs practice before an exam. Also, I am extremely excited to attend the quinceañera of a friend of my host sister.
Some highlights thus far:
On the first night with our host family, Micah locked us out of our bedroom and had to wake up our host mother (which in turn woke up the rest of the family) to have her let us back into our room.
Our family has a dog named Rambo.
Dogs bark all night long and the roosters start about 4:00am.
There is another volunteer in our training group from Mitchell, South Dakota. In addition, I met a current volunteer who is from Sioux Falls!
Another on of the trainees in our group looks like Chuck Norris. Exactly like him and it never gets old.
Some highlights thus far:
On the first night with our host family, Micah locked us out of our bedroom and had to wake up our host mother (which in turn woke up the rest of the family) to have her let us back into our room.
Our family has a dog named Rambo.
Dogs bark all night long and the roosters start about 4:00am.
There is another volunteer in our training group from Mitchell, South Dakota. In addition, I met a current volunteer who is from Sioux Falls!
Another on of the trainees in our group looks like Chuck Norris. Exactly like him and it never gets old.
5 comments:
yay! I'm glad you guys are doing well! And Alisha you get to have pretty toes! I love you guys and hope Micah gets all better soon!!
I love that you two can always find the humor in everything. Have fun with Rambo and Chuck Norris. If I ever get a job, I'm starting to save to visit you immediately.
Hola Micah y Alisha,
Me alegro mucho que llegaron bien. Veo que Uds. ahora estan en Santiago de Surco. Cuando tengan tiempo, por favor, llamen a Rosa Coronado, la mama de Jenny. A Rosa y a Maribel les gustaria tener la oportunidad de conocerles.
Silvia salio esta manana para Peru. Manana al mediodia estara en Puno de nuevo. Estuvimos encantados con su visita aqui. Cuidense mucho. Alisha, muy pronto vas a estar hablando bien el espanol, y entiendo todo - vas a ver. Los quiero mucho!!
chuck norris in the peace corp??? not as great as walker: texas ranger, but whatever.
i'm glad you guys made it to peru and as for the update on my sister and the dalsted boys, i think it's a negative.
This sounds so awesome. Chuck Norris as a trainer has to be about the coolest thing ever. You know, if he were a country his principal export would be pain.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Anyway, glad to see everything's going well! :-D
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