(More than a few) Thoughts on teaching my first English Conversation Class
One of the most obvious benefits that we can provide as Peace Corps volunteers is English teaching. This is also clearly an emphasis for the organization, and that is no exception here in Mexico, even though in Tech Transfer, we are almost exclusively “specialists” with a variety of technical assignments. A few were given English […]
Bienvenidos a mi casa – Welcoming my first guests
I’m not doing anything fancy, but having my first guests has motivated me to finish a few of the home-improvement projects that I had started – mainly getting plants and straightening up. So now I have a few plants, but they aren’t completely potted into good receptacles. Â I still have to go buy another pillow […]
Furniture delivered…with style
I would like to say that this is the last post about moving in, but I’m very excited about my futon delivery on Thursday, so there will probably be a picture of that as well. These moving-in pictures and posts are what is happening in my life right now, but they are not interesting for […]
My (first) award-winning photographs
I’m happy that I overcame my procrastination and entered the PC Mexico 50th Anniversary Photo Contest celebrating 50 years of Peace Corps. I won the “Faces of Mexico” category with the first photo below, taken during the silent procession during Semana Santa. The second photo, ¡Lucha Libre!, garnered an honorable mention in the same category.
Tech Transfer in Mexico, or my visiting professorship after PST
We started out the week with the Counterpart Workshop, and then I spent the day yesterday at my new workplace, where I will be starting in June. Another trainee (very soon-to-be volunteer) and I are going to the same site, and we are the first volunteers to be at this center. There are a lot […]
Week 8, for the win!
Because we are all “primeros respondientes” now after our day of first aid training, of course. Or, because we got our site assignments, and I didn’t end up on the floor as in the above picture. We may have been able to skip the balloons-and-darts portion of the presentation, but we still had a bit […]
flores de bienvenida
The end of week one: arrival at my host family’s home where I will be living for the next 11 weeks. Training begins in full force on Monday. They are a lovely family – very warm, generous, and patient. I am their second Peace Corps trainee, but I’m not sure what level of Spanish the […]
Arrival in Mexico
I have many new photos to upload, but I am still trying to get my internet routine back to a regular schedule, in addition to learning Spanish for something like 6 hours a day and absorbing all the other information of a new Peace Corps Trainee. So, it is about a week delayed, but here […]
Application Timeline
I saw this type of post on another blog (http://mobleyfamily.info/), and thought it was at least good for myself to have the timeline documented. Then I found it on many other Peace Corps experience blogs, but most of the other are unreadable. It has been a long process. I pulled up my “Peace Corps” tag […]
March and Procrastination
I still don’t have a plane ticket, but I received another letter which said that I will start my Peace Corps stuff on March 14th in D.C. before heading to Mexico. Starting to feel the moving stress, but that is the motivator. Posted the plants online for sale, and the snowshoes, but not so […]