According to many in the peacecorps chat room, the stans have been evacuated over the weekend. BBC has story. See peacecorpsonline.org or the yahoo peacecorps...
I've seen a lot written about the moods/phases of new PCVs during PC training & their first 3 months in country. But I wonder what phase the PCVs find...
It still can vary a fair amount from day to day but now there is the kind of frustration that settles in when you are asked to submit a rather lengthy detailed...
congrats linda! i'm so excited for you. I am sure you will have a great experience and be so impressed at how well heather knows her host country.<br>how long...
Hi guatepc-<br>Heather has been in Honduras since Jan. 31 of this year. We talk quite frequently, email at least once a week and phone call at least once every...
<a href=http://www.concentric.net/~jmuehl/pcinfon.shtml target=new>http://www.concentric.net/~jmuehl/pcinfon.shtml</a><br><br>Search on GUATEMALA and post your...
Oh, I thought you were going down to Honduras earlier, Linda, & Heather was coming back home with you for Christmas. But staying in Honduras for Christmas ...
pchonduras: You were "away" during the summer and missed a chapter. Heather's grandmother died in August and H. had to use her vacation to come home for the ...
Ah, I see. Really? Her friends are going home? Not the case with my friend. I'm sure you'll have an amazing time -- getting to see your daughter's village & ...
Hurricane Iris (Category 4-Mitch was category 5)hit Belize but fizzled almost immediately thereafter. Downgraded to a tropical storm as soon as it made...
linda...any special reason why i should take gatorade? i was meaning to ask you this earlier but forgot. oh, and did heather take a water filter with her or ...
guatepc: You do not need to bring bottled water. PC gives you water purification lessons and supplies. In Honduras they can buy bottled water and many PCVs do,...
Hello everyone, <br>My daughter is showing me how to use this before she leaves tomorrow. She says many of the people on this board have been very helpful to...
*Welcome!* I'm a friend of a PCV, & I've found this board to be an awesome resource: very comforting & helpful. You're the parent of an amazing individual -- a...
Welcome aboard, guatepcmom!<br>I conversed with your daughter several times in the past few months. Today was the big day, eh? The first few months may be ...
here's a question perhaps lvs can answer. i've seen posts on the other club about gifts to bring, but some of them seem more appropriate for africa as opposed...
Hi Linda: Thanks for the warm welcome. My daughter is spending her first night in Guatemala tonight. I can't stop thinking about her! She is the baby of the...
Hi pch: Thanks for the 'Welcome'. You are right, my daughter is a kind, warm,caring & loving young lady. She is so eager to help & to serve others it amazes...
Mamacita Guatemala: Your daughter will get what she needs for water purification. That is not mainly how PCVs get sick. They eat out, they go to homes and ...
Linda -- I didn't know that there'd been an ET from our group (I thought that our group had not had any ETs so far). And the Med-Evac was also an (alarming)...
The ET in our group took place before the end of training. She had a boyfriend in the States. Near the end of training, the trainees got a very SERIOUS lecture...
Hi, I just said goodbye to my boyfriend who left on Tuesday for his assignment in El Salvador. I had been looking around for a support group...or something,...
Welcome. We are happy to have you here with us. The best advice for just about everything is stay open to life. Linda Sullivan.<br>PS. This gives you an ...
Linda, you always say just the right thing! Maybe I should apologize because I joined this group a couple months ago and have been mostly "lurking." My ...
This will be a great support group for you! And believe it or not writing letters will be romantic and old fashioned and a great way to get to know each other....
