I am currently in site and once week into my service and have been quite busy, which is a relief for me. My spanish is still horrible so that is my number one priority right now, communication.
I have been told by my mother that I need to keep my blog updated ( which I have been pretty bad about). So I only have a few minutes for a brief overview...more to come on my next trip to the big city...with internet :)
Below I have posted some highlights from my technical trip with Peace Corps. We had a great time and were able to see some wonderful farms and meet great knowledgable people as well. We went to Puerto Quito and stayed in a agricultural school for students from the city, then we went to Santo Domingo and Elempalme and visited various sites around those areas including current volunteers.
Making Chifles, fried plaintain chips
Worm bed demonstration in a current volunteer´s community
Rice cooked with a banana leaf....amazing
Making yogurt, yum, I would love to do this at home
Visiting a volunteer´s site and we cleared out the land and build a fence for a school garden
Relaxing in the beautiful agriculture school
Hard at work pruning cacao trees
Creating stacks from highly productive cacao trees
Machete in hand and ready to work!
Skinning a rabbit...which we later had for dinner
We saw many many pigs and small animals
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