Yesterday and today were chocker-block full of paperwork! We learned all the paperwork necessary for the community profiles that we give the volunteers, how to set up the volunteer CALM plan that they follow in the case of an emergency, how we file health incidents, standards of conduct violations, etc. etc. etc!!! My project director was not kidding when she told us how much paperwork we were going to have this summer.
Latin America is known for always finding something to celebrate. This weekend there have been fireworks going off both nights. Last night, we were told that they were celebrating the potato, which is a major staple in their diet. Tonight after we were out to dinner, we walked through the Plaza de Armas to get Churros. There was another celebration going on there where they were celebrating the Patron Saint, San Francisco. They had more fireworks going off tonight :)
Today, we also found out about our community routes for the summer! There are three regions that we are working with, each of which are associated with different partner agencies. There are seven supervisors and in general we all have between three and four communities in one region. I have a slightly different set-up as I will be doing a split route. Meaning that I will have two communities in one region and two in another, giving me the opportunity to work with two different partner agencies.
I will be working with Plan who primarily focuses on youth leadership development and child rights. And I will also be working with CEDEPAS which is a primarily agriculture organization. This will be our first year working with CEDEPAS so I will have the opportunity to somewhat dictate how our relationship with the organization grows over the summer!
My general week on route will start on Tuesday and I will go out to San Marcos to visit my Plan communities. I will spend two nights there and then head back to Cajamarca, our staff house city. I will be able to be at staff house for a time period (anywhere from 30 minutes to 5 hours) to relax and shower and then I will take another Combi (similar to a van) to the CEDEPAS communities in San Pablo.
While I will have some added paperwork and meetings because of working with two partner agencies, I also am the only sup that gets to travel back to staff house mid week. All of the other supervisors will be taking mostly bucket baths on route! I am very excited to be in my communities for the first time this upcoming week, starting on Tuesday.
Tomorrow we are taking some time off from working to go have some fun and visit ruins near Caja and then we are going to Los Baños del Inca in the afternoon! The baños are essentially hot springs :) It will be my first hot shower since I have arrived in Peru which will be amazing! I guess we can also pay a little bit extra in order to get a massage, which I most definitely will be doing!
Sorry! No Pictures on this post, we have been too busy doing paperwork! I will make sure to share some from our fun adventures tomorrow!
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