Intermediate Service Training? Intensive Seated Tedium? Interesting Scholastic Teaching? Peace Corps, like any good governmental organization, really likes its acronyms. I admit it was a little confusing at first to be a PCT sitting in PST discussing the COAT with our LCFs, trying to figure out when we were going to meet with the PCMO... You get used to it after a while, even if you never do figure out what all the acronyms actually mean. Whatever IST really means, it's the first big training meeting all the volunteers have together after moving to their permanent sites. It was a long, exhausting, informative week.
We built improved cook stoves (aka played in the mud).
Learned about nursery seed planting.
Built a plastic house (actually, I just watched-- It was really hot that day and I like to encourage men to work as much as possible).
Met a buffalo with really long toe nails.
Planted a field of tomatoes while learning about drip irrigation.
Built a solar food dryer.
It was an exhausting week.
We built improved cook stoves (aka played in the mud).
Learned about nursery seed planting.
Built a plastic house (actually, I just watched-- It was really hot that day and I like to encourage men to work as much as possible).
Met a buffalo with really long toe nails.
Planted a field of tomatoes while learning about drip irrigation.
Built a solar food dryer.
It was an exhausting week.
It seems like you should be teaching those classes. ;) now that all the volunteers have spread out do you have still have a friend close by? I'm working on a garden again this year. Hopefully I'll actually be able to tend it and not have to just set it aside.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your adventures, traditions are so interesting to hear about, probably even more interesting to participate in :) Also, that buffalo really does have have long toenails.
ReplyDeletecan I get your email? I have some questions and don't want to leave a crazy comment. I'll be in Nepal in September with the next group of volunteers. I HAVE QUESTIONS! krysla.lynn@gmail.com is mine or Krysla Sita on FB. x
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