Tech trip

So next week we will be taking our first tech trip. My group is going to Santo Domingo-Pedro Vicente Maldonado-Puerto Quito. Im pretty sure that's several cities lol. Anyway this is where we will be giving out first charlas to groups of children. Within this group we are going to be split up into smaller groups. We are giving all in all 4 charlas. One is on "corazon feliz", the other about personal higiene and washing hands. The third is Nutrition and the fourth is another one on "Corazon Feliz". The charlas range from 5 year olds to adults. The specific charla on corazon feliz was presented to us today and seems really interesting. A PCV started the program and it focuses on educating ecuadorians about Diabetes, Hypertension, Cholesterol and Blood Pressure.

Im excited to see how it goes. As of right now Im not very nervous because I've got all these fun ideas on what hands on activities we can do with the people. Even though the charlas seem basic they are so necessary because, even though it's hard to believe, many of the people don't practice things like basic higiene things like washing hands. Tomorrow actually we will be going to a school to give some type of charla, but won't find out till tomorrow morning exactly what we'll be doing.



Along with the charla our group has to do a survey and interviews with people about the community and then we will give a very formal presentation about our findings in front of a panel of the Peace Corps Trainers.

Ok I gotta go wash my underwear by hand. Host mom's giving me gloves this time so my hands dont freeze! yay!