The biggest and best news I have this week is a new volunteer has joined me in my site. Her name is Amy and she is an education volunteer who has come to work mainly with the schools.  So far this week that she has been here has been great and full of lunches, meetings, snacks, meet and greets, cakes, introductions, dinners...I think you get the idea!  There are a whole lot of people to meet and there is a whole lot of food to be eaten and Amy has been doing great.  Everyone really seems to take to her and as my one buddy put it "guys are following her like mosquitos looking for new blood!" HAHAHA she and I both thought this analogy to be hilarious but true!

 

It hasn´t been all fun and food though!  We are already planning a "Day of Books" celebration for the library to come through in the coming weeks that should be a good time.  We are planning all sorts of games using the world map, books, reference materials, etc.  We even have prizes to be given to all the participants and schools.  We are hoping to get two schools to send two teams to compete (one from each school in the morning and one from each school in the afternoon) and then the winning school recieves a set of dictionaries.  The dictionaries are a series of "Spanish/English", "Spanish/Guarani" and the normal definition style dictionary.  It is going to be a bit of work on our parts but if all comes out it will be worth it I think.  I hope Amy is pumped about it because I sure am and I am sure we will have a few more projects to put together before I hand over the reigns to her and walk off into the sunset.

 

Next week is my "close of service conference" where we all get together and basically plan for what we are going to do after service and also get a huge packet of information to fill out and have completed before we can actually leave the country.  I am not really looking forward to the huge packet of information but I am looking forward to being with the WHOLE group I swore in with and swapping stories.  I am CERTAIN there will be some stories from that one.