Gud Maarnin Everyone!
Nate and I are very excited to announce that we received our final placement on Tuesday. We are heading down south to Punta Gorda! Punta Gorda is a small town of the coast. Literally, our village (a village within a town) called Indianville is across the street from the Caribbean Ocean! We are ecstatic! Nate will be working for a cacao organization. He will be doing tons of fun things, like helping the organization with their database and marketing. I will be working with a primary school. A primary school is essentially an elementary school. I will be helping them to establish sports programs and after-school programs. We will be heading out this afternoon to get to our site. It will take 4 hours to get there without stopping (or in a car). On a bus, it could take us 8 hours. From what we understand, there will be Internet cafes and phone service. Oh and we are going down with 8 of the funniest and most fun volunteers too. We feel extremely blessed. We will keep you posted on our new adventure and with our new host family. We love you and miss you all.
Love,
Michelle (and Nate)
Score!!! Out of all the places you could have gone, this is fabulous. We're checkin' out airfare already. (But will give you lots of time to scout out all the best places.) And those Caribbean breezes will make life so much more comfy. As for cacao...did you find out yet that only Mesoamerican emperors were allowed to drink chocolate (which is derived from a Mayan word, xocholatl, or something), and that normal peons could be executed for drinking it???? (I did an undergrad in Mesoamerican archaeology...). LOVE YOU! This is great news, and so great that you love your peeps! We miss you. Tell us what you need. (Glad you got a laugh from my RAD experience.) Karen
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