¡Siguatepeque!

Well, we finally got our site assignment and we will be living in Siguatepeque (See-watt-e-peck-ay), which is pretty much in the middle of the country. We´re working with Proyecto Aldea Global (Project Global Village), which is involved in Food Security, Health, Domesitic Violence, Protected Areas, Education and a number of other things. Dan will be doing a lot of work in Parque Nacional Cerro Azul Meambar, and I am still figuring out which part of the organization I would most like to help with.

We are currently exploring our new community and organization because we are on a 4-day site visit. We will return to our training site for 2 weeks of additional training before we swear in on the 26th (finally becoming official volunteers) and then head out to our site permanently on the 27th to start our two years of service. We will live with a host family for our first 2 months in Siguatepeque and then can find our own place.

Here´s a little info about Siguat:
It´s heading into the mountains, at a little over 3,000 feet, so the temperature is cooler here than in other parts of the country (low to mid-80s during the day). We are near Lago Yajoa and Parque Nacional Cerro Azul Meambar, so should have lots of great outdoor recreation nearby (and if anyone wants to come visit, it would be a cool place to stay). Siguat itself is relatively large (roughly 50,000 people) with many of the amenities of a larger site (eg. internet), but the barrios (neigborhoods) feel like much smaller communities, with dirt roads, roosters crowing, and cows and horses grazing.