Phase II Training started in Port Vila, where all of the VITEL members (English + IT) were flown into Vila for about two weeks of final training before school starts. It was really great to see everyone because it’s been a while, not only that our counterparts came with us as well. A counterpart is a teacher at the school that the Peace Corps says each volunteer must have and it was great for them to come into Vila too to learn more about the Peace Corps and what it’s all about. I did realize I’m going to be teaching..a LOT. Most IT volunteers have an IT counterpart who helps teach the kids computers but since I’m the first IT vol at my site there are no teachers who are teaching computers besides which leads me to teach year 7, 8, 9, 10 and the vocational school all about IT, woo! That’s going to be a lot of work but this training definitely helped prepare me for it by getting my curriculum and lesson plans in order.
Anyway I’m going to keep this one short because it’s pretty late and in about 4 hours I have to wake up and hop on my plane back to Ambae. This time it’s a little bit more of a big deal because we’ve had all these trainings and my broken toe so I’ve been to Vila a lot and now I’m not going to come back in for three months. So for the next three months I’ll be teaching children and really starting to get to doing my job I came here for and yes I won’t have any Internet at all, you can feel free to call me anytime or write letters (I love mail!).
Oh and on a side note I watched the super bowl at a bar overlooking the ocean, it was awesome.
Thanks for reading, take care all and I’ll talk to you again in a few short months!
