It sounds like your experience is more and more of an immersion! Getting to know Ray and other people in the area sounds like an excellent way to get into the local culture more deeply- and check out the popular places that are off the beathen path. The monkeys sound adorable!

The ethos of your new placement sounds more like what you were hoping to inspire in the kids at your first placement, I hope it is an even better fit the way it sounds. - Cool that you then get to learn some local skills and trades as the teacher teaches her kids useful lifeskills. Did you have to remove the peanut skins and roast them before you ground them into peanut butter??

You sound great! Thanks for the update!!

Love and hugs from me n' Trevor

written by  Jane and Trevor on October 17, 2008