Volunteer monkeys around with teachers and CTA
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April/May
Letters to the Editor
So I am giving a taller toall of my teachers (about 25)to start the year off right. Inthis workshop, of course, wetalk about our fundamentalHealthy Schools themes. Iwrite a request to the CTA tocancel classes and explainwhat the taller is all about. Igive it to the CTA who inturn signs it, stamps it, andgives one approved letter toeach of the schools.All four of my schools, allof my teachers see the letter when he returns it approved.I see my teachers today atmy first school of the week and they are all compliment-ing me on the letter and areso amazed at my Spanish andmy ability to write such agreat letter and how difficultit must have been. I acceptgraciously the complimentseven though it's just a basicletter and I really don't seewhat the big deal is. Still I gohome feeling really goodabout myself and how I'vefinally won the respect of theteachers. Now that I've got-ten their attention it's going be a great year.Just out of curiosity I go back to my computer when Iget home and read over theletter again. It looks prettygood and I'm just about toclose it when I read, "la im- portancia que los estudianteslavarse las monos." And justfor clarification, that's"monos" not "manos"
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theimportance that the studentswash their monkeys. Yep,their monkeys. Amazing. Iam so awesome. Really gottheir attention, alright. Wayto start off the year right.-
Dana Weddle
,
Tecpán, Chimaltenango
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Jareau “Just call him Jay”
Hall
,
New York
He was an African Studies ma- jor at Colgate University and healready misses sushi. FYI: thereare a couple sushi restaurants in
Antigua, but I‘ve yet to try them,
and as his biggest pet peeve is being around large groups of drunken foreigners, he may wantto avoid AntiguaLandia. Thissoccer player and
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fan joinedthe Peace Corps because he
―enjoyed the idea of living in
another country and being ableto contribute to its develop-
ment.‖
Bethany Harmon
,
Washington
Like me, she survived the col-lege experience in Spokane, soGuatemala should be no prob-lem (I kid, I kid). Her worst jobwas held at age 12 when shespent a winter counting bee lar-vae in a cold warehouse for $3
an hour, so she‘s been prepped
for those chilly temperatures
she‘ll be experiencing in Santa
Polonia. Her favorite book is acollection of poems called
Sail-ing Alone Around the Room
, byBilly Collins.
Amanda “Manders” Mayhew
,
Colorado
She‘s already missing dairy products, but here‘s a word to
the wise: lactose intolerance hasa tendency to creep up on unsus- pecting Peace Corps volunteers,so proceed with caution whenyou finally get a chance to con-sume some quality cheese. Her biggest pet peeve is people whothink they know more than youabout everything. But that
shouldn‘t be a problem here in
Guatemala, because as we allknow, all PCVs are experts inmedicine, agriculture, engineer-ing and, well, just about every-thing. Her mechanical bull re-
cord is five seconds and she‘s
going to have to buy somewarmer clothes, because shethought it would be hot here allthe time.
Adrian “Adeedo” Ortega
,
California
His favorite quote is, ―Go with
confidence towards your dreams. Live the life you have
always imagined,‖ and that‘s presumably what he‘s trying to
do by joining Peace Corps. He plays soccer, beach volleyball, baseball and surfs, and he got
his kicks from his Speak ‗n‘
Spell as a child in the 80s.
Adeedo says he‘s going to miss
Nana most from home and rec-ommends the book
Cien Años deSoledad
.
Crystal Sand
,
California
The Political Science/SpanishLiterature major joined PeaceCorps for an adventure and is ingood company with her fellowCalifornians as she already
misses all things Trader Joe‘s.
Make sure your nose is clean if
you‘re hanging out with Sand, because she can‘t stand nose
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