Site Fair - Where Am I Going

Muy buenos Dias,

We received our packet that states all the sites that we can possibly go to for the next 2 years. We have 23 sites and 24 people because 2 people are going to be placed in the city of San Carlos, half way to Lesotho, behind Lake Nicaragua. I have to admit I have heard really good things about San Carlos but I can’t truthfully say that’s where I would like to go. En Realidad, I wanted to go to this site named Laguna de Perlas on the Atlantic coast. It is a small fishing village that speaks Spanish, Creole and English. The more I think about it though, I am going to be super open to where I get sent, because lets be honest folks, If I tell them I want to go somewhere Ill probably get sent somewhere completely different. They gave us 2 forms that we will need to fill out by the time we have our next interview, which will be sometime next week. One of these forms requests us to choose 3 sites and give reasons for why we are the most qualified to be sent there. The other form has a bunch of silly questions that ask us to rate from 1-5 our preferences and abilities. From these forms, the input from our language facilitator, other volunteers, and the technical trainer, we will be assigned our sites by Georgia and Emily, the decision makers.

Let’s Play A Game. You guys guess where I’m going to live and select it on my front page! I have set up a poll. I guess other. Then we can look back and see how everyone did. P.S. the sites vary considerably from 200,000 people to 1,500. Some work with 17 sections of school (exactly what I don’t want to do) and others such as Laguna de Perlas works with minimal schools but also with NGO´s and perhaps microfinance institutions.

Here is a list of the 24 sites:
1) San Marcos, Carazo
2) Corinto, Chinandega
3) Cinco Pinos, Chinandega
4) Tonalá, Chinandega
5) Estela, Estela
6) Granaga, Granada
7) San Rafeal del Norte, Jinotega
8) Yalí, Jinotega
9) León, León
10) El Jicaral, León
11) Nagarote, León
12) Somoto, Madriz
13) Masaya, Masaya
14) La Conception, Masaya
15) Veracruz, Masaya
16) Ocotal, Nueva Segovia
17) El Jícaro, Nueva Segovia
18) Bluefields, RAAS
19) Laguna De Perlas, RAAS
20) San Carlos, Río San Juan (2) persons
21) San Miguelito, Río San Juan
22) El Almendro, Río San Juan
23) El Rama, Zelaya Central

The Italicized Cities are where I don’t want to go.

I am open Minded and will do the best where ever I go because I am a Dominating machine. I hope all is well. Ohh we also had our second Spanish test the other day. I hope I did well so I could move up to intermediate medium (the lowest required level to make it past training.)

Its also hot as shit, I’m sweating mucho right at this very second. I’m supposed to teach class Monday, but it might be canceled due to dia de maestros.

Take it ease folks