Training is... over! I am currently at a hostel in Trujillo waiting to leave for my site where I will be for the next two years and it is pretty surreal. I'm going to do... what? Really? For 2 years? Oh my... I'm excited though, too!
I already visited my new host family a few weeks ago after our Field Based Training in Alto Piura (FBT=we spent a few days traveling around Piura learning about latrines and solid waste management systems--sorry it has been a while since I updated!) and am looking forward to going back to Buenavista. My host family has mango, avocado, banana, guaranabana, and lucuma trees on their property, as well as some pigs, cows and chickens--they have a small farm just outside of town. I'm very excited for January, since that is when the mangoes will be ripe!
Some things to get used to: I don't have a bathroom or shower; instead, I get to bathe either in buckets in my room or in the irrigation canal that runs through their property, and use a latrine. As I discovered during my site visit, both of these things require more practice than I would have expected! But I survived and I'm sure I will eventually get over my fear of forgetting that the latrine doesn't have a toilet/seat over it and accidentally stepping or falling in to the hole :)
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