Sorry again, this blog thing is getting more and more tough. So here is a brief update of what has been going on, bullet point style.
- Brought a student of mine to a youth conference about Information Technology put on by the Peace Corps. It was a 3 day conference with workshops and games to help kids gain the tools required to teach their communities a little about the basics of IT. It was very cool and my student even won a prize. The most participative, lol. He had a really great time and had the opportunity to meat a lot of other dominican youth from around the country. Great experience overall for me and him.
- Finishing up my computer repair class at my high school, and beginning to formulate a plan for next year. The class dealt with small repair basics and formatting of computers, throughout the class we began re-formatting all the computer, and am proud to say that my students will finish formatting the computer lab on tuesday (tomorrow). They will graduate then as well with certificates and cds with a bunch of computer programs. The class was not as successful as i would have liked. We only had electricity maybe 30% of the time, but the kids had fun.
- Trying to figure out what to do at the Detention Center. Computers keep breaking, kids are never interested. Frustrating scene.
- The lady who does my laundry claimed i did not pay her one month ago. When, in fact, i did. I decided to agree to pay her for this lost month to avoid a huge blowout and losing one of the few families that i am close with in my town. I did, however, mention that i did pay and that we will be moving to a receipt system to avoid this kind of problem again. I will be paying here the lost month over the next few months, just to prove to her that i am not made of money and to reinforce the fact that i am poor too, lol. We are on good terms now. Good as normal.
- I had the most amazing tacos last night.
- Med mission stuff is really picking up. Sent out a request for 34 volunteers. Confirmed travel on another 12, and chose participants for another 6. January is going to be a really busy month.
- I am coming home in 9 days!!!!
Well thats about all. Its pretty tranquilo here so no cool news yet. Sorry for the lag but i probably wont be updating until January. Adios y cuidate!
