Seven dollars is a small price to pay for wireless Internet access at my last stop in the United States. I sit in the Atlanta airport with just 2.5 hours separating me from that flight that will take me to my home for the next two years. The plan for arrival is a quick pass-through Belize City before heading on to San Ignacio, a small town on the Guatemala border where we will be doing our "basic" training for the next month. After that, the 40 of us will be splitting into groups for our technical part of our training. I will spending time with the 5 other Small business advisers as we travel around Belize learning to do our job. Around that time we will be told what part of the country we will be living in and will begin the appropriate language training (note: Belize has 5 different major languages, with English being spoken by most).
After the whole training experience, we move to our home village and will live with a host family for the first three months at site. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about Belizean culture and to practice our language skills. I am really looking forward to arriving in Belize and learning more about the people and culture, and maybe even do a little work. I have some pictures of my 4 hours of site-seeing in Belize and as soon as my batteries are charged, I will post some random shots of me with a few monuments. Unfortunately the president, despite his letter in my Peace Corps invitation packet, was not available to greet our group.
By the way, my training group is a most excellent collection of committed folks, with a large cohort from Seattle including a fellow Pacific Lutheran alum. Our time together in D.C. was very short, so I am sure as we get to know each other I will have more information to share and pics to post. Best wishes.
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