Background Infor

Some people have mentioned that we haven´t filled everyone in on how this whole process works, so for those of you that are still in the dark, here´s a basic outline of our schedule.

We had a 3 day staging in DC and a 5 day stagin in the capital city of Managua

We then arrived in ¨training towns¨, all located close to one another in the area near the city of Masaya (an hour from Managua)

Here we spend three months living with a host family and receiving langauge, teaching, cultural, medical, leadership, safety, etc. training 6 days a week. Very regimented and tiring. Kaitlyn and I live a 10 minute bus ride from one another, seperated to help us in our language learning and cultural adjustment.

In about a month Kaitlyn and I will be assignend a site and do a week long site visit to get to know the place, people, our ¨counterparts¨ that we´ll be working with, and find a place to live.

After three months of training we are ¨sworn in¨ as volunteers at the end of a week long session in Managua. After that the two of us head for our site where we´ll be serving permanently for the next 2 years.

So that´s the plan, the details later.