I am currently located just south of Esteli in a rural villaje living with a host family. A typical includes waking up around 3:30a thanks to the rooster at 5:00a for the dogs and then around 5:30ยช to get ready for the day. Moving into my host family was a huge thing for me. With my limited spanish, I have to communicate everyting form washing my clothes, to eating, to telling them if i want sugar to whatever else comes up all in spanish! It is getting a lot better, although the dinners are usually quiet do to the lack of spanish!
As for some of the stuff that I am learning and doing: the Peace Corps Agriculture position is a great program to practice a wide variety of things. We are learning all of the ag stuff that you would expect-land management, sustainability crops and fertilizers. On top of it, we have a week session about cook stoves, another week on fruit drying, and as a training group of 22 we are starting a micro-finance banco-Grameen style. We are doing it with our own money so we can understand it and then take it out to our rural communities where we will be placed. As you can tell I am super stoked to be learning and working in so many different areas! Also I may be working with solar PV and solar hot water.
I hope everything is going great with you all-Love to hear from you via email(sorry if it is a delayed response)
Wes
wlmeier@gmail.com
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!Que emocionado! How exciting! Take care! Buena suerte!
Wes, we miss you and glad to hear everything is going alright. We are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers and hope to hear from you soon.
Best wishes,
Sasha and Nathaniel
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