So, I left Tuesday (aka St. Pat's) for a week in Los Pozos visiting a current volunteer- Grace.
The goal is to see what life is like - real life is like for a PCV. Day one we walked the small town of Los Pozos. Basically to do the whole loop slowly, it's 15 min walking? It's cute. I think I'd like a bigger site than this but I do like it. It's hard to know exactly what I'd like? Day two we met up with 2 other current TE PCVs and we discussed the upcoming meeting at the university. They want to start a seminar course and wanted to find out if it was possible to get credit for the course or if MEDUCA would give points to those who attended. It seems like it won't work out for credit or points, but it sounds like a cool seminar.
I feel like someone just needs to get with MEDUCA and create a course that is available for points and then PCV can just copy and teach that already approved course. But I realize it's not easy. I loved the university setting. The teacher there was excellent and enthusiastic, and she seemed like a dream to work with. She's definitely the exception to the rule in life. She was so quality.
Grace has been helpful in telling me tools for the trade and how things really work here. It's cool to have a "big sister" of sorts, even though I'm older than her.
Today we visited a secondary school, and I could begin to understand how the process unfolds - very very slowly. Verrrrrrry slowly. Basically we spent the majority of the day in the teacher's lounge. There's a German guy at her school that is there to help as well from a different program. Kind of neat. It's essentially a service gap year. He of course spoke like 5 languages and in his spare time was teaching himself computer coding before university. Ahh Germany.
But I now kind of get how people here need to really communicate and try to find your niche because it's exhausting when you have nothing to do. Also, I'm sick. I have a sinus infection - of course! I'm so annoyed since I'm here, but I guess at least Grace can help me get to the doctor. It's def awkward though.... I was at her school and about fell asleep from exhaustion. Then I got back to her house and just slept for like 3 hours straight. I think it's awkward for her, but what else can I do? I emailed the medical office and tomorrow I'll go to the Dr. I thought they could just call something in, but I guess not.
Tomorrow is a new day, so fingers crossed the Dr. is helpful and everything goes okay! I'll be going to a baseball game tomorrow and seeing a new parts of the city tomorrow too. Yay.
For St. Pat's, I ate a green doughnut. No green beer, but at least I remembered!!
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