Okay im really bad at navigating blog websites so you'll have the bare with me. Im sitting in the office in La UCA San Ramon. Today is Monday and my first official day working here i suppose. Everything still feels so new and foreign to me, which is to be expected. I'm just trying to focus on being in the present and not being too hard on myself if I feel a certain way. But so far I really like it here. The family im living are all SO nice and helpful. I live up a mountain and all night I listen to the sounds of birds and the rain and a rooster (starting at like 3:30Am!) I eat plantains and rice and beans and vegetables that I have never heard of. Basically what im trying to say is that everything is so NEW and Different. Its scary and confusing but also so exciting.
Brianna-one of the other CAN interns has been here for a month already and I am so grateful to have her here to help orient me. Besides that I have been very aware of the different form of speaking here. I want to be able to understand what everyone is saying but damn it is so hard. All the words sound slurred together and the "S" is not pronounced like i learned spanish in Mexico. But I like the challenge and I hope I will be able to improve my Spanish.
The Project I will be doing is to meet with different young people who are involved in the cooperativas and conduct interviews. I feel nervous about it right now b.c I am not sure what form this will all take. I guess thats it for now. I just have to be open to experience and see what comes of it. but i feel very fortunate to be able to experience a culutre so different than my own. Ill write more when I have some more to say.
--kylie
Monday, July 5, 2010
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