This first week we were in Pre-service training, also known as PST (there are acronyms for everything). Overall it’s been a lot of information about all of the bad things that can possibly happen to us ranging from sexual assault to rashes and skin fungi.
While the days have been really long I’ve gotten to go to the beach everyday! A few of us have swam laps at sunset which has been a great way to exercise and release some stress. I still haven’t processed that I live here now and that I will be able to do this everyday for the next two years.
Yesterday afternoon we received our work site information. I’ve been assigned to two schools in the St. George’s area: The Limes, a school for special education, and The Lutheran School. It says that at Limes i will be “assisting with current activities in the school” while at the Lutheran school it says I will be “assisting with planning and development (knowledge of databases using filemaker pro would be an asset).” Well I have no experience working with special education and no knowledge of filemaker pro so this should definitely be a learning experience.
For the next two months I been assigned a host family: Anthony and Yvette Joseph. If the experience is anything like the one I had in Israel then know it will be wonderful. I’m really excited to meet them on Saturday! If this arrangement works out I could potentially live with them past training until I wish to move into independent housing.
It’s been wonderful meeting the entire Eastern Caribbean volunteer group. While everyone is really excited to get to their posts and get started, I know it will be really exciting when we all come back together for mid service training a year from now.
I enjoyed reading the blog. Looks like you are having fun.
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