Thursday, 6/12/14
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| Entry sign for the Peace Corps Training Center in Madagascar. |
Life at the training center compound is awesome!!! It is in the Mantasoa area, which is
amazingly beautiful. It lies on the
eastern banks of the highland area with rolling hills, beautiful tress, and an
awesome lake (we can not get in the lake for safety reasons…some parasite that
lives in standing water we are told). Being
at the compound is like being at summer camp.
Many of the people only share their room with only one other person, but
in my room I share it with five other volunteers and it is great. They are all awesome people. The rooms are much like you would see at a
camp in the States with comfortable beds, a shower (with hot water!!), toilets,
and a couch, but with mosquito nets and a ton of luggage that seems to be
growing by the hour with all the stuff they are giving us.
We get feed really good food three times a
day with two snack times in between, which makes me think of kindergarten and
nap time. So far they are feeding us
western food, but they say they are going to slowly introduce us to Malagasy
food; seeing that we go to our host homes in two days I do not know when that
will be. All in all it is not doing much
to get us ready for our site as far as the hardship of living is
concerned. Although the days are very
busy with meetings and language lessons.
The meetings themselves are all about living, being a Peace Corps
Volunteer, and medical information. The
weather here is pretty cold during the day and gets really chilly at
night. I am not used to it and am glad I
brought my hoody and coat, both of which I have worn at the same time. It will be nice to leave here for the host
home in a few days though, but we will be returning every Thursday for more
meetings. I can not wait to get to my
site to unpack all my stuff and finally get started.
*A video tour of the PCTC (training center) can be found here.
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