Time flies so fast. I have only 10 months left and it feels like I just got here.
My puppy luna just turned 5months old! healthy and happy after recovering swiftly from a deathly motorcycle accident.
Adrianito turned 1 year old!! (on the same day) hes so big now! hasnt started walking yet but any day now hes going to take his first steps solo...
the family is still health, happy and crazy as always!
I attended my mid-service conference and got a chance to see the other volunteers in my training class again. many of whom i havent seen since reconnect which was 3 months into site. Some volunteers are doing really amazing, incredible, unbelievable things.
Reconnect definitely motivated me to get started on more projects and gave me some great ideas.
It also got me thinking about what i'm going to do after service. Now everyone says we're half way through, half way done, its time to start making our in site projects sustainable and long lasting. its crazy. I have so many things id be interested in doing, that i would love to do after service that i cannot decide. extending is definitely an option for me.
my current projects are:
AEROBICS. just as popular as ever with tons of ladies, kids and adolecentes who come out to do aerobics for 30 minutes and play soccer afterwards (which may last 2 hrs).
RECYCLING. We have placed recycling stations in each school in town to separate bottles, papers, and trash. we also have a community that separates their trash between organic and inorganic. We are working on getting a paper blender machine which we will use to make recycled paper. we also are scheduling a work shop to learn how to make purses, wallets, etc out of recycled bags.
PECHICHAL. a community we are organizing. we have painted murals, cleaned up the streets, talked with the trash truck so that it goes there every week to collect the trash (there are many rural communities that do not have trash pick up...which means they either dump it or burn it), we are planning work shops in computation and health, we have gotten them a 'botiquin' which is like a medical kit that they can use in case of a medical emergency (becuase they are so far away from town), and we have a soccer school for the kids in town.
CLUBHD. My diabetes and hipertensives have been slow lately, they dont want to change their diets or do exercises even though they know the consequences of the lifestyles they are living. at midservice i started thinking of ways i can re-vamp my teaching tecniques and so i decided that each meeting i will assign them one task. and they will dedicate the next month until the next meeting on that task. then i will assign another. hopefully this way they will learn new and healthier habits little by little.
CLJ. My youth group is still as active as every. right now were planning a huge HIV fair in town, we have made trashcans to put around town in the streets, still painting and pretty much everything i do is based on them. right now we need to focus on recruiting more kids because many of them are graduating from HS this year and will be heading to college.
thats my update! until next time !
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