Leaving to the Training Village

So I am leaving for the village, about 2 hours away from the capital where I will train for the next 11 weeks. This will go from basic technical langauge all the way through more advanced langauge and cultural stuff and ending with practice school where for the last 2 weeks I will teach a group of random students gathered together for us to practice on (This will also be during Ramadan which means they will be hungry and grumpy), I sort of feel bad for them, but it will be an invaluable help to be able to teach under supervision from our trainers.

So there are 4 chemistry education volunteers, and there was already one here who will be leaving when we finish training. The math teachers have tons of resources from previous volunteers and the physics teachers have some amount of materials as well. Chemistry is a new program that got started right before everyone was evacuated, and we are literally going in blind, with no previous Peace Corps resources to guide us except our trainer who is a chemistry teacher in Guinea. They are hoping that one or all of us will take it upon ourselves to organize some sort of class notes and lesson plans for future volunteers. So basically, we are the pioneers of Peace Corps Guinea Chemistry Education, which is both intimidating, and really awesome.

Anyway, I will be off the grid (literally) for the next 3 months and won't have access to internet with the exception of one or two short trips in to Conakry. This means this blog will slow down, but I hope to post updates eventually.

So basically, stay tuned....and wish me luck!