I spent my first three months in Paraguay in training. My training group of 21 was split up into two towns outside of Asuncion, with training 6 days a week. About twice a week both groups had training in the same site. In my town, there were ten of us, and we were split up into different host families. Needless to say, we spent a ton of time together- in language classes, technical training lectures on family finance, discussing the joys and stresses of our host families and new foods, etc. Luckily, I had a great group!
Training, unlike actual Peace Corps service, is (necessarily) very structured. I felt like I was always either in class or doing semi-mandatory dysfunctional family time, which made maintaining my sanity a bit difficult. Certain things helped me to keep my balance. There was an old lady a few blocks away who made the most delicious cake for 25 cents a slice on the weekends and I was a top customer. Ok actually that was the main thing that helped me keep my balance.
There are several things from training I could talk about. I’ll mention a couple now and add more later…
A little explanation of the photo above- this is the half of my training group that lived in my community along with our trainers in the bus that took us out of town when we had training with the other half of our training group. Not a bad lookin crew, eh?
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