First Weekend.

My first week on SVG is over and just wanted to give a quick update while no one is waiting to use the computer in the Peace Corps office.

Our first few days of training went well, although they may have dragged on a bit for some of us. We have three trainers from the island who will be working with us on Culture, Youth Development, and Community Development. All of them have years of experience under their belts, are good presenters, and will be great resources and mentors for us over the next two years.

Training days are a little long, but afterwards we've been doing some exploring of the capital , Kingstown. I always have to be mindful of the time. My town, Chateaubelair, is just over an hour away and the vans stop running out there by 6pm. One day I got to the bus station just after 5;30, a van for Chateau pulled up about 10 mintutes later and there was a mad rush for seats, luckyily I made it on.

This weekend I hung out with the family a little bit. I brought down a book on making paper airplanes, and the family's son Yanick, his cousin Winston, and I spent the afternoon trying out about 5 different models. The planes are fairly intricate to fold, but man some of them flew over 50 yards.

Sunday morning I joined the family at Church. In the pre-arrival Peace Corps handbook on the Eastern Caribbean, they stress how important khakis are, and I wore a pair to church, but I stuck out a bit as almost all the men were looking sharp in black dress pants and white oxford shirts. So I just picked up a new pair of pants which are being hemmed and already have the shirt, so I'll be ready this Sunday. Ok, gotta get back from lunch break for the rest of training. Peace.