Festina Lente

I´m having a great time here in Chiquian and it is incredibly beautiful. I can’t at the moment post pictures because I don’t have my computer with me, but I CAN type cool symbols like this: ñ and ¿.

I wish I could elaborate on this but I lack the internet time (usually I type my entries offline before posting them), but the best moment of my week was yesterday when we were in class and we drew a community map. It is a good way to delinate good and bad locales to open a small business or tienda. I was asking if the cemetary, which is far away from town, would be a good place to start a business (as a ‘bad’ example). One girl raised her hand and pointed out that it would generally be a bad place to establish a business, but would be a great place to sell flowers. To most, this probably sounds silly or insignificant but I can’t tell you how good it feels to have someone ‘get it’ in so short a time.

The teaching is going well and the student-run businesses open in about an hour, and stay open through Thursday afternon. I can’t wait to see how my group does. Most are selling food, but one group of students is running a bingo game which will be fun!!

The hardest part of the training was teaching excel…so to all the people taking a break from word or powerpoint or excel to peruse my blog, thank your lucky stars for the knowledge you already have with these programs. It was hard enough to teach a new program, but to do it in another language was nearly impossible.

It is cold here, but the cold is worth it. It is so beautiful, I feel like I spend half the day just looking out at the mountains….hopefully I’ve been able to capture it in my pictures.

Happy late bday to Julian and Stoller. Hi Mom and Dad–I love you guys.