Pictures of My site!
Ranchero, this is how I get out to my pueblo from the nearest city
The soccer and basketball fields
Beautiful waterfall
The house of my host family who I will be staying with for the first 3 months
Catching rain water in the night in on of our wonderful storms to use to flush my toilet and take showers
The waterfall where people gather water, bath and wash clothes. Yup I bathed in the waterfall one day :)
The kids in my neighborhood helping me out by drawing a map of the community with sidewalk chalk
My new room, mosquito net safe haven
Beautiful fruit trees outside my window
I just visited my new site for 5 days and this was the first time I was starting to feel more like a PC volunteer. We still have have 22 days left of training and I has been going by fast. Next week we will have a 12 day technical trip where we will be recieving technical training for our specific region. I am really hoping my spanish level and technical skills improve a lot during this trip...because I really need it!
My site is great, though I did have some challenging times during my stay my family and community is wonderful and I really hope to be able to integrate into the community and assist them to my best ability. I am in the province of Esmeraldas which is in the northern part of the counrty. I will be living in a predominantly Afro-Ecuadorian community working with value added processing and commercialization of cacao (chocolate). I am actually located in a rain forest which I must say is a surprise after having lived here in the Sierra for the last month and a half, but it will be nice to live somewhere that is climatically different from Maryland.
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