Rama has Monkeys!

IM now really excited about el Rama. we have had another busy week like usuall. we are starting to wrap up all of our projects which is really nice. Today we are cunducting interviews with owners of companies that make dried fruit candies in our town. We will be presenting our findings to the peace corps, this will be focusing on an external analysis of the factors that affect this little industry in our area. we are also wrapping up our youth group. They still need to find bottles to package their hot sauce, but we will be finishing up the business plan with them today. On monday 26th the kids will get driven to a hotel where a competition will be held between them and the kids in the youth groups from all the other peace corps trainies.

So on monday we all go to managua to meet our counterparts, or the principals from the schools that we will be working with. I have four schools that I will be working with in El Rama, and since I'm going to a new site, they invited all the principals from the schools. I don't know how many will come, but i hope all of them so I can get to meet them. I guess the day is very awkward from what i have been told. They make us play games with them before we know who is our counterpart, then we guess who we will be working with. We will then spend monday night in Managua at a hotel, SWEET. I will get hot water for the first time in 3 months. Then in the morning we leave for the Rama on a nice 6 hour bus ride.

Once in El rama I will be visiting all my schools, the teachers I will be working with, and planing my schedule for when I return, like the hours and days that i will help teach and plan with my counterparts. I will also have to go around town and talk with the mayor, police chief other people, all of this will be really awkward as well since im still not fantastic at spanish. Oh and i will be living with a national police woman for the first 6 weeks, but i heard my room has its own entrance so I dont have to go in the house to get to my room which will be really nice.

I have started to like El Rama more and more since learning about it. I will be in a bustling river port town which sounds fun. I will be a 1.5 hour boat ride from bluefields which means i will likely be frequenting the beaches there. i will have access to really good and cheap fish and sea food. It does rain a lot there but I also hear monkeys hang out like cats and dogs, although they might be shit throwing monkeys, so i might have to be carefull. I will likely buy a maskot monkey. I know i will have at least 2 fantastic hammocks so company can hang out as well.

I will return next friday for my final 2 weeks of training. I cannot wait to get that done. Im supposed to teach another class but I dont know if i will be able to.

I hope all Is tremendous.