Thursday, June 27, 2013

IN COUNTRY PEACE CORPS TRAINING




WEEK 1: Our days started with Kiswahili for a few hours in the morning. Followed by lesson from our medical team on how to stay healthy and some shots. Then lunch, followed by some other training lectures.
        
First week with my host family was amazing. My host family has four sons from age of 23 – 29. Two live in Nairobi and two of the sons live in Machakos. I got to know them very well and they speak perfect English that made the transition much easier. Getting used to the different ways of bathing and using the restroom. The weather is perfect because its wintertime here and temperature is very cool.

WEEK 2: Training schedule remained the same for the most part. They separated the Public Health Educators from the business group. 
   
I got very comfortable with my host family. Went to church with them, which was in English. Got to meet some of the community members. Watcher African football (soccer) match and met more People.

WEEK 3:  Same Kiswahili lesson in the morning. We had a current Kenya Peace Corps volunteer come and give a presentation on Malaria. It was very informative and very interesting to hear her experience so far. She has been serving for 2 years and she will be heading home in a few weeks. She answered all of our crazy questions. We also meet two more current volunteers.  

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