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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Two Months In Site- What am I Doing?

So I have been in my site for two whole months now! Can you believe it? Only 22 months left... yes that means I am still counting. So what have I been up to? Tons of stuff! My main contact is the community center/after-before school program and I go there almost daily to do work. What type of work? Some days I am tutoring kids other days I am helping to serve snacks to the kids and others I am working on our new garden. Garden? With the youth group I formed at the community center we have cleaned an area and prepped it for a vegetable producing garden. Which we will hopefully be planting soon. We have youth group every Saturday morning at the community center and we have been doing some random fundraisers to start out with. I am also teaching computer classes at an elementary school two days a week. There are about twenty classes in all which is really overwhelming. We are on winter vacation for the next two weeks and I have planned, or am in the process of planning, a three-day day camp for the kids at the community center. They'll be learning about geography and some American culture. The theme came to me when one of the kids pointed to a map of Paraguay and asked me to show her where my county is located. I have another volunteer coming to help me with the camp and on the last day we will be painting a large World Map as a project. I can't wait! After winter break is over I will be teaching cooking classes to some of the mothers from the center. That should be interesting. We will be cooking without meat and Paraguayans are not exactly open to the idea. But it will help to reduce food costs and improve their health so I am going for it! So other than that I attend meetings for some other youth groups in the area and accompany my host mother on an hour walk nightly to sell sandwiches at a night school. I haven't been nearly as bored as I thought I might be. Living in a big city there's always something to do!

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