Staging

Okay,

For those of you who are either reading up on Garrett or just the experiences of a Peace Corps Trainee:

Arrived in the San Francisco airport at luggage terminal 10.

- I texted a fellow Invitee where she was at
- She wasn't where I thought she would be
- Turns out she was with the 4 others waiting for me at luggage terminal 3...on the OTHER side of the airport.
- So, I lug around 4 pieces of luggage allllll the way to the otherside and off we go to the Hotel Kabuki


12:00 - open registration

- filled out paperwork
- mingled with now fellow Trainees

2:00 - 7:00p - "Ice-Breakers"

- anxieties and aspirations
- skits based on Peace Corps Expections
- break
- more "ice-breakers"
- logistics on travel to Hong Kong/Phnom Penh
- group leader meeting (I'm one of 6 that just keep tabs 'til Phnom Penh...then my duties are relinquished

7:00p - dinner

- barbeque meat sandwich
- clam chowder
- Kenyan beer

8:30p - walgreens


aaaand that's about it so there's my trip so far.

Itinerary:

SFO - XHK: 1:20p (Tuesday) - 6:10p (Wednesday)
XHK - PNH: 8:55a (Thursday) - 10:30a (Thursday)

yup...

that's about it. hopefully I'll be able to post once when I'm in Phnom Penh. I use the language once for a reason. Apparently the internet isn't so...available in Kampng Cham, where my training hub is. So, I might be able to update once every two weeks or I might not get to post at all. So, maybe by the time I post again (at a more frequent rate), I'll be immersed in the language and doing okay at it.

Peace Corps Cambodia sector guestimates:

33% - Health
77% - Youth Development/English Teaching Teacher Training...combinations.

I'm probably way off, but that's the way it seemed when we were introducing ourselves.

Attrition:

We began with 57
We now have 54

- 1 wanted to continue, but due to a broken limb is (hopefully) being relocated to a new PC assignment in the next month or so (I'll miss you, Tammy. You were pretty cool for the short time I got to know you)

Talk to you later

- Garrett