**Time to play catch up! So I have horribly neglected my blog and am just starting to post things that were written back in June. The post date on the blog will be different but I'll include the date each entry was written so you can put these posts in perspective in terms of time. So sorry, I'm a first-time blogger!
6.18.10 Happy BDAY to my sister Kerty, 22 woop woop!! I love you!
We arrived safely later in the evening of the 16th to Quito, Ecuador, yay! All 68 (the largest group so far) of us were welcomed by Peace Corps staff who clapped for us an helped us get our luggage to the vans and then onto the buses. We were divided into two groups: Youth and Familes (Jóvenes y Familias), and Public Health (Salud Pública). As part of Youth and Families, I stayed at Hostal San Javier. Over the next few days we stayed in Quito and spent a lot of time at the Peace Corps Ecuador Office, getting to know staff and fellow volunteers, completing paperwork, getting shots, language exams, and talking about safety and cultural things, policies/procedures as PCVs (Peace Corps Volunteers). The 67 other volunteers that I’ve met are amazing people, and come from all over the States; there are two other “Wisconsinites” (woo!). Everyone comes with all different kinds of traveling and volunteer experiences. Our group is also fairly young, most have just recently graduated from college, others are in their mid to upper 20s.
After training during the day we came back to the hostal those couple of days and had dinner, and then hung out, played games, etc., you know, the usual thing you do when you first meet new peeps.
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