What is Peace Corps?
Find out here or via their official website.
Where is El Salvador?
Well, it's that small little country in Central America; south of Guatemala and west of Honduras. It's the only country in C.A. that borders only the Pacific Ocean.
Learn more about my PC experience by viewing some of my photos here or projects here.
Are you a current volunteer? Here is some advice I have for you.
Find out here or via their official website.
Where is El Salvador?
Well, it's that small little country in Central America; south of Guatemala and west of Honduras. It's the only country in C.A. that borders only the Pacific Ocean.
Learn more about my PC experience by viewing some of my photos here or projects here.
Are you a current volunteer? Here is some advice I have for you.
My Featured Blogs:
My first blog post as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador
- initial impressions of the country
- meeting my host family in my training community; Apastepeque
- pictures of my house, my host family, and my training group with our Spanish teacher Vicky
Peace Corps Training in El Salvador
As a PCV you spend your first two months in training involving cultural, language, project ideas, etc. You spend this time with a host family in a training community with a few other volunteers
As a PCV you spend your first two months in training involving cultural, language, project ideas, etc. You spend this time with a host family in a training community with a few other volunteers
- What I love about about El Salvador
- What I have learned to accept
- What I'm still trying to adapt to
- What I will never understand
A few more thoughts...
Some more thoughts on El Salvador during my 3rd month in the country
Click here and here to view pictures from training
Some more thoughts on El Salvador during my 3rd month in the country
Click here and here to view pictures from training
- New and exciting moments from the week
- Some lessons I have learned already
Calderitas; My New Site
My big move to my new site; where I will spend the next year and a half. Click here to see pictures of my host family
The Ups and Downs of a PCV
My big move to my new site; where I will spend the next year and a half. Click here to see pictures of my host family
The Ups and Downs of a PCV
'Some days it don't come easy, some days it don't come hard, some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end.
Back in Apastepeque
How it feels to be back in the pueblo again after a few months in the village
Back in Apastepeque
How it feels to be back in the pueblo again after a few months in the village
- Some things I love about Salvadorians
- And the things that drive me nuts about them..
- Things I never thought I would say before coming to El Sal
- The month where the "the plague of the campo" begins
- The only one who will change will be yourself
- The month where everything begins feeling 'normal' again
- One down, One to go
Month 15
Enjoying the simple life where all you have is yourself, your community members, and your land.
What it feels to finally consider El Salvador your home
Enjoying the simple life where all you have is yourself, your community members, and your land.
What it feels to finally consider El Salvador your home
- My second Christmas in the village.
- Guatemala
- 'Dia del Indio'
- Things I am looking forward to the most about returning home
- Things I am worryied about
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