Anticipating

We know one thing....where we will live for the next two years.  The Hubs and I will live in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste.  Okay, we know a few more things, such as our jobs (I will get to in a little bit), where we will be living, and where other Tico 23ers will be living.

Our jobs-The Hubs will be working with up to 9 English teachers in a bilingual cologio (high school).  He will do things like co-plan, co-teach, conduct English conversation clubs, and other neat things to help the teachers and students improve their English.  That his is primary job being a TEFL PCV.  For his secondary projects he says he wants to work with young kids and/or teens.

I will be working with our regional English assessor creating uniform observation forms, observing teachers in our region, and facilitating workshops for English teachers in the escuelas (primary school) and cologios.  I will be doing a more administrative role (I think), which is what I want to do after the Peace Corps.  Regional assessors are equivalent to district managers in the retail world.  This is a new job in the Peace Corps Costa Rica world.  For my secondary projects, I would like to do something with teen moms/young women about parenting and taking care of themselves and maybe an exercise group for women.  However, our secondary projects will be based on the needs of our community more than what we want.

Speaking of our community, we will be living in a larger community than most Peace Corps volunteers because it needed to support two people.  We are about an hour from the beach and half an hour from an international airport.  And has just about everything we need and want to live.

We will be living with a couple possibly close to our parents age who have grown kids.  We have been told we will stay in their upstairs with our OWN BATHROOM!  I am a little excited because our two room apartment has felt extremely small the past 2 1/2 months.

We will know more of what our community looks like, our jobs, counterparts, (Tico co-workers) and host family soon.  We leave today for a 2 day workshop with our counterparts.  Then on Saturday, our counterparts will take us to our communities.  This is for everyone in our group.  We will no longer be living in walking distance from our friends.
Once we get back from our site visit we will only have 1 1/2 weeks left together before we swear and do what we came here to do, make a difference.  While our group is diverse and unique we have become pretty close knit.  It will be hard saying good bye to more people, but it will only be for a short while and we have some cool places to visit.

So friends and family in the States and in Costa Rica, be thinking of when you want to come visit us.  The Hubs and I would LOVE visitors.

PS Sorry for the lack of pictures again, still having problems with posting pictures.