After a long day of travel (about 18 hours), we finally arrived to the site of our 3 day retreat, just outside of Lima! It was super dark when we arrived so no one knew where we were or what the place looked like. So in the morning we awoke to find a beautiful retreat center with a swimming pool, dinning hall, gazebos, and koi ponds all surrounded by mountains. GORGEOUS!
We spent the next couple of days learning about the Peace Corps' general purpose and objectives as well as our individual sector's objectives. I'm very excited for what the Community Health Sector has in store! Not only are there great plans to promote health and wellbeing for youth and mothers, but all the volunteers have great passion and life-experience. We will be a great team.
That is one of my favorite parts so far: getting to know the amazing people I am lucky enough to spend the next two years with! We are very different but so much alike. Everyone has a passion to serve and be adventurous. We all are excited to use our time to make a difference and to learn all we can from this culture. It's amazing to feel the connection when I meet someone who's ambitions and passions match up so closely to mine. A huge part of the retreat was bonding with the other volunteers, and bond we did! After formal lessons we hung out playing music, playing soccer, doing yoga, building human pyramids, etc. It did not take much for the 58 of us to become a close-knit group.
On the second day of the retreat we found out our site placements for the next 11 weeks! I was placed in Chacrasana with 10 other volunteers: Austin, Austin, Matt, Annie, Katie, Sabrina, Liz, TJ, Graham, and Jill. We will live in Chacrasana and take the Combi (public bus) to the Training Center in Chaclacayo (10 minutes).
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