One Year In!
It's official! I've been in the Peace Corps for more than 1 year and I’m already halfway done. It seems wild that a year has already past. Sometimes I feel like I just stepped off the plane and unpacked here in Imereti. The school year is almost closed and my counterparts and I have done some very exciting things this year. We have an English club that met once a month, doing everything from celebrating different American holidays to practicing our English using Disney movies. We started an English lesson program in the kindergarten, using 5th-9th-grade students as teachers, getting little kids a head start on learning a foreign language. We had a summer camp, a resume workshop with a guest speaker, dozens of interactive lessons and a stereotypes workshop with one of our neighbor schools. I have many projects going on outside of school as well. I work with a group of volunteers on a summer camp project called “BUILD” – Boys United in Leadership Development. I am so...