Meetings & Entertainment

Today our counterpart teachers left and it's our last night for our Peace Corps retreat.  I'm sad we have to leave this beautiful place, especially because the food here is AWESOME!  We had some great meetings and sharing time.  The new TEFL group came today and joined us as our counterparts left for their homes.  Tonight we had a fun barbeque dinner: hamburgers, hotdogs, campfire, and roasted marshmallows :)  We also had a little "entertainment night" tonight.  A couple of us who have been working at camps the past month or two wanted to continue on with the talent shows and show off some fun skits, so I had our trainer send out a text and then I made a few announcement to encourage people to participate.  Some were skeptical, but it turned out to be a great night.  We had skits, songs, guitar performances, a story, and other acts such as a contest to hold your breath the longest.  It was pretty funny and special.  I was glad that I was that annoying person pushing people to sign up and urging ones to come and watch.  I'm pretty almost everyone was there watching and quite a few people participated.  I announced at the end that this was the "First Annual TEFL Talent Show", emphasizing "annual" so that the new PCVs will hopefully continue with this to make it a tradition.  It was a nice bonding time and just an evening to share a laugh and relax.  Glad it happened :)