Yes, Jess is back, but she is still trying to gain energy. Thanks for your thoughts & prayers! Her blood platelets started to rise so they let her come back to San Juan and we visited her Thursday evening. It was so nice to see our friend again :) She was able to come to meetings today in Masatepe, but I think she needs more rest…the weeks following Dengue apparently are full of fatigue. Continue to pray for our friend!
Today in our meetings we found out where we’ll be going for next week’s Practicum Week. This is an experience where we “shadow” a Nicaragua English teacher for a week. We go to his/her classes, observe, plan, and teach. We are paired with someone in our group and our whole group has been split in two. I am in the Matagalpa group—yay! We will be staying in Matagalpa for the week and I’m going to be working with Julie Elena (Julie). I’m so excited! This should be a fun and unique experience and I’m really looking forward to the cooler weather :) We have a pretty busy schedule as we are supposed to be at the school all day with the teachers and we have other meetings with our whole group to reflect on our experiences.
We are now finishing Week 6 of training…we are over half way through, but really it feels like we’re much closer to the end than the beginning. We have Practicum Week this next week, then a week of classes & finding out our site on that Friday (Oct. 28th) & a Teacher Training Conference on Halloween, then we have our site visit week, and then only 2 more weeks of wrapping things up with our youth group, co-teaching, and final projects/reflection papers, etc. Before you know it we’ll be swearing in as volunteers! Woo! I’m ready!!
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