Second training site

Hola todos,

I am currently in my next trainning site which I am at for three days. I am almost done and will be going to my site on Thursday! I can´t wait. It is really hard to use a Spanish keyboard! Miss my computer but it is packed away. I really like my family here but time seems to be going really slowly and i just want to get started.

I have some great ideas for my site. I want to start a recycling program and trash collection. I want to build a park for the children to play maybe in the school. I want to plant more trees at the school and surrounding areas. There is a serious lack of trees and shade. I also want to get some other volunteers to start a small buisness compotition where youth from there towns come up with an idea for a product and how they could sell this product. Then they will come together and compete for the best product the winners get some money to start up their busness. I don´t know how this will turn out but I hope that I get to try it. I want to start a youth group the first few months there doing manualidades or crafts using trash. Like baselets, bags, earing ect. We have to do a youth group anyways so I might as well do soemthing like that. Let see what else. I want to learn more about the womans group in town and what they are doing maybe i can help out.

Classes I guess and going well but i don´t feel like I am going to get much out of it that i couldn´t get from the village. Maybe some pronounciation stuff that thats is about it. But that will be very useful so it is a good thing in the long run.

Finally a Volunteer!

Hey i got a new key board so now i can actually type which is amazing! I did my poem during the ceremony and i am going to copy it here so that those that can read Spanish can read it. Those that can't can have it translated for you or just make up what you think it says. The ceremony was great a bit long up fun. I am trying to get a recording of it and hopefully i can show it to you guys. That is only if i can get permission to post it. I don't want to break any security rules.

To night we get a thanksgiving dinner at one of the staff's houses which i am looking forward to. It will be a fun and alto of yummy food. There will be a talent show as well and I will be reading another poem. LOL. This time i didn't write it but i like the message that it says. I'll write that one down too. I will miss a few of the staff members here it will be hard being at post for the first few months.

I am not looking forward to the loneliness and the hardship of finding friends. I can't wait for the service to start though. It will be hard but i can work thought it. just forcing yourself out of your house everyday and get involved in things. To just go out and thrive. Which is easier said than done.

Poem for tonight:
who among up could deny that we were tested? But how look at us every person is stronger. Now there is something like light. Prosses is being made. We have removed the rot and we are strenghtening the foundations. There is much work to do and we all know what needs to be done. We can only do the work. SO let up get up early and stay late. Brick by brick and block by block let us get that work done. If we can picture it then it can be done. Ludicrous dreams followed by hours, days and years of work and then a reality that surpasses our wildest hopes and expectations.

Ceremony poem:

En mi Cuerpo de Paz

En mi Cuerpo de Paz nos separamos las Américas de Europa, quienes van al Caribe de África. Tenemos Ingles, tenemos Medio Ambiente, Salud, Agricultura y Pequeños Negocios… tenemos una categoría para todos.

Luchamos con el idioma, la cultura y con las reglas. Algunas veces nos sentimos como ¡gringo tantos!

En mi cuerpo de paz hay algunos que piensan ser Fuertes, pero cuando yo miro en sus ojos puedo ver inseguridades.

En mi cuerpo de paz hay algunos quienes van a juramentarse y algunos no. Algunos Cruzan esta línea y algunos no... Tenemos adultos, tenemos jóvenes, a parejas y amigos.

¡Pueden mirarse a lo largo y a lo ancho de Nicaragua!

Nosotros luchamos con nuestros proyectos, con nuestros sitios y con nuestras clases… ¡Queremos algunas horas de tregua!

En mi cuerpo de paz nosotros reímos, lloramos, callamos, y volamos; algunas veces nos preguntamos ¿que están hacienda aquí?

¿Pasamos? ¿Fallamos? Pero, solamente el tiempo va a decidir si podemos hacerlo por dos años.

En mi cuerpo de paz los aspirantes estábamos ansiosos porque llegara este día, sin embargo no sabíamos que el tiempo pasaría tan rápido.

Nosotros vamos a trabajar con doctores, maestros, finqueros y más. Vamos a vivir sueños grandes y pequeños. Vamos a luchar con reajustes, amigos y con un Nuevo horario

¡Vamos a recordar los mejores años de nuestras vidas en Cuerpo de Paz!

¡Gracia Cuerpo de Paz! ¡Gracias Nicaragua!

Sware in

Hey this is like a record I am writing alot of entries lately. We sware-in tomorrow! i did better than I thought I did. I got intermidiet low not the one they like for site so I still have to do the extra three days which I think will be fun. I will be in a village with other volunteers so we can all hang out. The last few days were charlas and some were very interesting like the AIDS one and talking about the embassy. Where we went the embassy today. They were very funny and i had a surprisingly good time. There was a place to get American candy and I stocked up. LOL.

Also we got to sleepover at a hotel tonight and tomorrow for swear-in. I had the most amazing shower. Real shower with hot water and steam and pressure and did I mention hot water? It was heavenly. Then I had Chinese for dinner and walked around a mall that had alot of American stores it was a nice refresher. I'm excited for the ceremony tomorrow. I will be reading a poem I wrote at the ceremony in Spanish about Peace Corps. I'm very nervous and excited at the same time. More tomorrow.

LPI results

Well I did a bad job on my LPI or the language test or at least I think I did. So I will be staying back for more training. Joys I am sick of training I have been doing 6 months of training! At least I don't thing I will be sent home. Its only for like a week so in the long run it will make no difference. It's hard to imagin that training is almost over. Time went by really fast.

We finished our youth group project. It turned out really nice. It is of a mural I will put a picture of it on facebook. The sware-in is in one week! I can't wait. Now its just a bunch of charlas about technical, medical and security stuff. Boring but essential.