Hola!
For the next 10 weeks I will be doing training and living in a community near San Jose. If you would like to send me mail, please send it to the addresses below, and the Peace Corps will get it to me. When I move to my permanent community I will give you my new address. Gracias!
Did I mention 4 DAYS LEFT?! Crazy, but exciting! Thanks to all of my friends and family for being so supportive of me through this process!!
Here are my Training Addresses
Mail:
Michaela Butler, PCT
Cuerpo de Paz
Apartado Postal 1266-1000
San Jose Costa Rica
FedEx:
Michaela Butler, PCT
Boulevard Rohrmoser
300 m. Oeste de Farmacia Fischel
El Triangul Costado Oeste del Parque la Loma
La Favorita, Pavas
San Jose, Costa Rica
I would love mail, so write me :)
Pura Vida,
Michaela
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Diez días hasta el Cuerpo de Paz en Costa Rica!
Bienvenidos todos!
After graduating from college, moving back in with the "room mates", a quick trip back to summer camp, and over a year long application process; I am finally leaving for the Peace Corps!
I will be serving in Costa Rica for the next 27 months doing Community Economic Development. I could not be more ecstatic about the location and assignment! A beautiful country filled with rain forests, great people, beaches, and countless kinds of animals and fruits....a country with no army, and a women president?! I am there! I honestly believe that everything happens for a reason, and the reason this process took so long was so I could be in this great place. I am excited to take all of the things I have learned and put them to use to help improve life for at least a few people in Costa Rica. I know it will be a challenge but I am ready for it.
I am leaving on my great adventure in 10 days!! I will fly into Washington D.C. and have a quick "staging" orientation for a day where I will meet the other 43 PCV(Peace Corps Volunteers) in my class that will be serving with me all around Costa Rica. Then, scheduled to leave our hotel October 5th at 2 a.m. (11 pm pst!), we will be flying to San Jose, Costa Rica. From there we will go to a 5 day retreat in the mountains near San Jose. During the retreat we will go over basic cultural norms and language essentials and take a language proficiency test. We will then be split up into different learning communities for a 10 week orientation. During that time I will move in with a host family and learn cultural, language, and technical skills, and do some social and professional networking. And finally, on December 17th, I will be a sworn in by the american embassy and will move to the community that I will be living and working in for the next two years!
I will try to write on this whenever I can with updates of whats going on in Costa Rica.
Pura Vida,
Michaela
After graduating from college, moving back in with the "room mates", a quick trip back to summer camp, and over a year long application process; I am finally leaving for the Peace Corps!
I will be serving in Costa Rica for the next 27 months doing Community Economic Development. I could not be more ecstatic about the location and assignment! A beautiful country filled with rain forests, great people, beaches, and countless kinds of animals and fruits....a country with no army, and a women president?! I am there! I honestly believe that everything happens for a reason, and the reason this process took so long was so I could be in this great place. I am excited to take all of the things I have learned and put them to use to help improve life for at least a few people in Costa Rica. I know it will be a challenge but I am ready for it.
I am leaving on my great adventure in 10 days!! I will fly into Washington D.C. and have a quick "staging" orientation for a day where I will meet the other 43 PCV(Peace Corps Volunteers) in my class that will be serving with me all around Costa Rica. Then, scheduled to leave our hotel October 5th at 2 a.m. (11 pm pst!), we will be flying to San Jose, Costa Rica. From there we will go to a 5 day retreat in the mountains near San Jose. During the retreat we will go over basic cultural norms and language essentials and take a language proficiency test. We will then be split up into different learning communities for a 10 week orientation. During that time I will move in with a host family and learn cultural, language, and technical skills, and do some social and professional networking. And finally, on December 17th, I will be a sworn in by the american embassy and will move to the community that I will be living and working in for the next two years!
I will try to write on this whenever I can with updates of whats going on in Costa Rica.
Pura Vida,
Michaela
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