Los Robles

September 19 2008

Well it has been over a week since I last updated this blog. In case anyone was wondering, I am still alive and healthy! I am doing my CBT (community based training) in Los Robles. So far everything is great; I have an awesome host family who owns their own colmado (corner store)- which means I gets lots of goodies!

For the past week I have been working on my community diagnostic and yesterday our group gave our presentation… in Spanish! We did well even if we were a bit rusty trying to use our Spanish around all the technical terms. Today we had to go to a public school and a private school to observe the differences in teaching styles, actual school buildings, as well as the materials taught. I sat in a class in each school about half an hour and took notes. All in all, I learned a lot. Basically its better to be going to a private school because the added structure allows for a better learning involvement.

On another note, I started jogging again in my community during the mornings. I feel safer jogging around here and I use my ipod. I think people look at me weird because its not common to jog- but I do it anyways.