I’ve been waiting for 4 days now for my dog to give birth. We all thought it was going to happen by now and shes shown signs but nothing. The whole world comes by every day or whenever they see me “yeah? Now? She did it? Nada?” uhhh its crazy. Its hard for me to blog these days, I’m either busy doing other stuff, or too tired or I don’t have anything to write about.
This is my last week at the high school giving health classes and thank god because I don’t think I could take another week. I totally respect all of the teachers out there (shout out to Jackie) because I just cannot do it. I don’t know if the kids in the states are as bad but some of the kids here are just so straight up rude and disrespectful its incredible. At least they’ve learned a little bit more about health and how to be healthy. I have data from my course (before and after) so ill show you a little once ive entered it all in.
So that is 2 completed projects: Vacation Classes-English and 1month of High School-Health.
I also have my aerobics group which has been on-going for about 3-4 months. That’s a success for sure, and rather than minimizing we seem to get bigger each week. We have a good group of about 8-10 ladies that come every day, others who come every so often and then newbies. We have 2 men now too! I have started my next (and biggest) project: Community Organization. I live in the central of San Isidro which is an entire Parroquia (county?) centralized here we have about 3,000 inhabitants. However, there are tons of outside communities (50?) which are very rural, have difficult transportations (crazy unkempt roads—worse than the center) and within those communities there is another 15,000 residents. My next project is to implement a community organization system where each community (or neighborhood) will have their own set of representatives (president, secretary, treasurer) and what I will be specializing in (and encouraging especially) are the representatives for the jovenes (youth) and health. (My idea is that) the youth representative will be in charge of creating a youth group (like Consejo Juvenil) and they will work in community service just as we do. The health representative will be in charge of keeping track of and reporting (to the Subcentro de Salud) 1.) pregnant women 2.) children under 5 and 3.) people with disabilities. This directive is so that the community itself will be able to improve their quality of life and so that they are more included and have a voice within the local government and all of the services that those who live in the center have (health, child services, etc). Each community will do a needs assessment and based upon that work amongst themselves and with us to improve their community. We have started mapping out the various communities which is the first step. I am very excited about this and hope that we are successful.
Consejo Juvenil is still working well. We are changing the crops in our huerto to melon and medicinal herbs like aloe or teas. We are also building out recycling office where we are going to make recycled paper, notebooks, etc. We have tons of paper! We just need the office and we can start. The other week we had a huge “minga” where we cleaned an entire neighborhood ALL DAY and everyone helped from little kids to senior citizens. We cleaned the streets of all the trash (there was so much!!) and weeds so that it looked nice and presentable and we also cleaned the local river of trash and weeds. We filled like 4 of these huge trucks! Another great success! 
My new hobby---->
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