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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Success!

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any position of the U.S. government or Peace Corps.

Some recent/current projects I'm working on:

Spay/Neuter Campaign

A 2-day, 2-town spay/neuter campaign that offered the operation as well as vaccinations, de-worming medication, and general check-ups for 6,000 colones (about $12), or free of charge depending on the means of the owner. With the collaboration of the SASY! Organization (Stop Animal Suffering Yes!), 51 dogs and cats were spayed or neutered. The veterinarian and assistant will be returning in January (hopefully) to follow-up and perform more operations as needed.

English Classes

Thanks to the support of the hotel, eight hotel employees are able to attend English class twice a week. Starting with the alphabet and numbers, we are now translating signs, letters, hotel information, and even sayings on t-shirts.
I also have an Intermediate English class of six adults in my community. We have a textbook that we follow, but we also do other fun activities like listen to and translate a song every week. Some recent songs: Beat It by Michael Jackson, Yellow Submarine by The Beatles, I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness, and Stop, Children, What's That Sound by Jefferson Airplane.

Nave Computacional

Nave Computacional is a computer class for primary school kids that was developed by Peace Corps volunteers in Costa Rica over the last couple of years. The kids work in groups on one computer and play computer typing games as well as games about computer security and cyber bullying. They also have small projects to complete like creating a group flag in Paint.

Intel Aprender

An Intel program, Intel Learn, designed to teach computer skills to under-privileged youth in the United States, has been translated into Spanish and has rapidly spread across Central America. Peace Corps Costa Rica has worked closely with the program to train Peace Corps Costa Rica volunteers in the curriculum to bring it to the developing communities in which volunteers work. After attending a Master Trainer course in San Jose, I have since trained 12 other volunteers in the program.
I am also on session 11 of 15 of the course with a group of six people from my community, aged 12 to 40, and it has been very successful in my opinion. They are currently working on the final project for the course, which involves creating a PowerPoint presentation and importing images and documents from Microsoft Paint, Word and Excel. They complained in the beginning about the scope of the project, but I had to basically kick them out of the classroom after the first day of working on it. They didn't want to stop.



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