VAC dinner and more

Last Saturday I went to a CED project fair. There were about 10 current volunteers there from CED, who talked to us about some current projects in their community. Some of the things we heard about were community newsletters, ECCs (empresa de credito comuntario) <-- I hope to get to work with this, chicos/as poderosos/as (camps and workshops for youth), environmental projects, teaching english, teaching ICT, starting computer centers, and more. It was great getting to hear from current volunteers and get a better idea of what our next 2 years here could be like. I especially liked talking to some of the volunteers about ECCs, which is something that I am very interested in. I really like the idea of starting a community funded credit union and the potential that this project can have.

After the project fair we went to San Jose for VAC, which is a get together of all trainees and current volunteers. The night included spending time with Tico 20, meeting some volunteers from Tico 18 and 19, dancing, eating, and disfrutaring (disfrutar = to enjoy).

On Tuesday we were given our assignments for Tech Week. For Tech Week, they split CED in half, and each half goes to different sites in Costa Rica to learn more about volunteer life/our preferences for our future site, learn more about current projects, and help work on some projects relating to ICT and teaching English, among other things. Myself, and 8 others from CED are going to a current volunteers site in Alajuela. It should be a good week.

In 2 weeks we receive our site assignments. In 5 weeks we move. Good times.