OK, so starting from now, I’m going
to try to make these entries a lot shorter by cutting out the day-by-day
section and just making the beginning section longer. You’ve now read
everything that everyone does during PST, so from this point on, my life as a
Peace Corps Volunteer will be a lot more my own experience and much less the
same thing everyone else is doing, so a detailed account may not be quite as
useful as it was during PST. Hopefully, this will make reading these entries
less tedious, so we’ll see how this goes.
This week was our first at our new
sites. Another volunteer came to my apartment in Barranquilla to help me get my
stuff down the stairs and out the door and our little dog, Sony, followed me
the whole way. I love my Barranquilla family and I love that little dog! At the
office, we picked up our water filters before sleeping on each other’s
shoulders on the way to Santa Marta. Once we got there, we had a host family
meeting and I met my new host mom. Later, we had dinner at another volunteer’s
house – I’m very excited to get to know the CII-5 volunteers, who all seem like
wonderful people.
We spent the week exploring in and
around Santa Marta. A group of us walked around the Centro and saw both the
Museo del Oro and one volunteer’s Soy Wiwa exposition at the Museo Etnográfico.
A volunteer helped me with buses and finding my church and I really appreciated
her accompanying me everywhere until I can get the hang of my new city. We
celebrated a volunteer’s birthday in Minca on Friday and hiked up to La
Victoria, a coffee farm about 2 hours up the mountain. We toured the farm and
drank tinto before heading back down.
- If you don’t have a Pinterest account, I highly recommend
getting one. It’s especially good for teaching ideas…and ideas for whatever
else you like.
- The Bendito Café, which is in the same plaza as the
Catedral, has a nice atmosphere and is a good place to meet with people in the
Centro.
- Colombian coffee is amazing. I don’t drink coffee, but
I’ve had it here several times because, well, I’m in Colombia. Even if you
don’t drink coffee, try it – like in the United States, drinking coffee is a
social event here and the coffee’s almost universally good (and the organic or
single-origin coffee’s even better), so why not?
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