I was busy as a bee all day running around printing off solucitudes, delivering them to volunteers, instructing the volunteers what to do with them, meeting with nurses, and NGO members in Chivay. I felt like me. Confident and efficient.
Then, I hopped on a bus to Arequipa for an 8 o'clock meeting this morning with a professor that teaching in Madrigal who is living in Arequipa during the rainy season. I have asked her to be the local representative for the VALE after-school program and invited her to come to Lima with me in March for a training on sustaiable development and the Peace Corps 50th Anneversary celebration. Her name is Angelica. She was the professor I was post impressed with while doing my teacher observations last year and the kids really admire and trust her. She is also a peer that I can relate to in a sense and one of the few people in Madrigal I feel that way about. We have spent bus rides chatting it up, and evenings caught in the street in conversation we didn't want to leave. It is her class that is doing a letter exchange through me with a class in the US, and it is her that I go to when I am confused or need help with something. She is beyond excited to get to go to Lima and must have hugged me 5 times after our meeting today.
Currently, I am sitting in a coffee shop working on the curriculum. I want it done within the month. Wish me luck!
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