A Day Off...

by Alisha

Due to a national strike in Peru today to protest the rising cost of living, I'm enjoying the morning off today. As far as I know the combi's (bus transportation) are not running and all of the trainees are taking it easy in our host communities until we hear if it is safe or possible for us to come in for classes this afternoon. 

We are now in week 5 of training! Next week we leave for our field based training. Micah and I will be going with the group headed to Cajamarca in the northern highlands for the week. There we will shadow current volunteers and do some projects with youth in their communities. I'm looking forward to seeing what the living situation of current volunteers looks like and to finding our what they do on a daily basis. There is also a natural hot spring nearby called Baños de Incas which I'm planning to check out.

I have also moved up in my language level. I stated our at novice-mid level and last week found our that I'm not at the intermediate-mid level. The Peace Corps requires all volunteers to be at the intermediate-mid level in order to complete training. I'm excited that I am making improvements and still have a lot more time with my language instructor before leaving for our site.