Month 8: Busy busy busy
HELLOOOO and welcome back! May was a jam-packed month, and I did so many cool things. Let's jump right in. More Training! During the first week of May, my fellow volunteers and I were reunited again (we barely had time to miss each other from Reconnect) for another training. This time, it was an IST - in-service training - and what made this one special was our ability to bring a community counterpart. Any person in our community (although usually someone from the school or institution we're working with) is invited to participate in a series of lectures and workshops by the Peace Corps, with the hope of fostering ideas and helping make plans for future community projects. It also didn't hurt that the training was held in the beautiful town of Atyra - widely known as the "cleanest" city in Paraguay, and we stayed at the stunning Marianela, an old monastery. I was so lucky to be accompanied by my super guapa [hardworking] Directora and one of my Profes. We spent th...