There are 29 of us in B-44. Everyone is either in there twenties or early thirties. I thought that I would be on of the older people of the group. I was imagining a bunch of recently graduated kids. But there are quite a few of us in our mid-twenties. Which is nice. We´ve got two married couples and the rest of us are single (some more than others). And I´ve never been so happy to be single! Everyone is pretty darn cool. No wackos or super obnoxious people. With big groups your bound to get a couple of odd balls, but I must say... we´re pretty awesome. We have a really good group dynamic going on. It will be really interesting to see who will make it through training and the subsequent two years. So far everyone (that I know of anyway) is still going strong.
There are 9 of us un the Environmental Ed. program. I think we hands down have the best job assignment. We learned how to put on a puppet show (so fun!), recycle paper, crochet plastic bags into actual functional bags to bring to the market for your groceries and what not. Guess what you´re all getting for Christmas? Right now we are in the middle of writing a script for a tv spot that we will produce and run in a small community in the Santa Cruz department during our tech week. We are also preparing a charla (talk), for a class of 4th graders in a local school, on reducing garbage. It feels sort of hypocritical to tell Bolivians to stop producing so much garbage because we Americans produce soooo much more. But there is so little infrastructure to deal with all of it here. It´s either thrown on the ground or into the river to be magically ´taken away´. Seriously, there are people who´s job it is to collect the garbage around the neighborhood and throw it in the dry river bed. Luckily this doesn´t happen in our neighborhood, but it´s pretty common in others. Even at my house I have no idea what they do with the garbage. Every time I´ve asked where to throw away something I kind of get this strange look and am told to put it in some random place or another. Never an actual garbage can. I´ve started a little garbage bag in my room. And when it´s full I´ll toss it in the river...haha...just joshin´ ; )
There are 9 of us un the Environmental Ed. program. I think we hands down have the best job assignment. We learned how to put on a puppet show (so fun!), recycle paper, crochet plastic bags into actual functional bags to bring to the market for your groceries and what not. Guess what you´re all getting for Christmas? Right now we are in the middle of writing a script for a tv spot that we will produce and run in a small community in the Santa Cruz department during our tech week. We are also preparing a charla (talk), for a class of 4th graders in a local school, on reducing garbage. It feels sort of hypocritical to tell Bolivians to stop producing so much garbage because we Americans produce soooo much more. But there is so little infrastructure to deal with all of it here. It´s either thrown on the ground or into the river to be magically ´taken away´. Seriously, there are people who´s job it is to collect the garbage around the neighborhood and throw it in the dry river bed. Luckily this doesn´t happen in our neighborhood, but it´s pretty common in others. Even at my house I have no idea what they do with the garbage. Every time I´ve asked where to throw away something I kind of get this strange look and am told to put it in some random place or another. Never an actual garbage can. I´ve started a little garbage bag in my room. And when it´s full I´ll toss it in the river...haha...just joshin´ ; )
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