Just finished up my first week as a Peace Corps volunteer. Seemed very typical- one day of sitting around, one day handing out soy oil to pregnant women, one day of meeting with the school principals and observing some trainings, one day seeking out pregnant women in the community, and one day handing out parasite pills to little kids. The Jornada de Vacunación just started on Friday. It´s a campaign to vaccinate all the kids, so the health center nurses go around to the outlying communities and vaccinate the kids. It´s a great opportunity for me because I get to know the outlying communities. This upcoming week I´ll be working through the weekend too.
And I´m officially living off $200 a month, paying $75 a month for housing and food(a great deal). Yalagüina continues to be cute, quaint, and tranquilo. I´m living the fachenta life, which I can´t really describe. But having a nice toilet, nice bed, nice shower, nice buses, drinkable water, and overall nice facilities make me a fachenta volunteer.
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