aishaj83 - What is Aisha doing in Africa?

You know...I ask myself the same question everyday! Well since I just started the blog I will use this one to give you all a quick view of
what my project is about, my typical training day, and any funny stories I want to add :)

The project: Girls Education and Empowerment

The name is pretty self explanatory, I am here to empower girls. I will be working with the director of a school in a small village to share with parents the importance of sending their girls to school, encourage self-esteem, and share the idea that the education of women is beneficial to the entire community. (fyi: this is a breif overview and in future blogs you will hear about my work so dont you worry)

Training Days...

So for now I am training to be a volunteer for the Peace Corps. Training lasts for 3 months. During the three months of training I have language classes, cultural training, and obviously...training on how to culturally appropriotely empower young girls and women. You would think that sticking soleone in a classroom all day to tell them about the culture would be th most boring and least useful way to introduce them to how things work in that culture. Well you are right...and that is why I dont sit in a class all day just to learn culture; I live with a host family in a village not too far from a larger city. I dont have electricity, or running water. So I take bucket baths, use a latrine, and when the sun goes down...I go to sleep! I live in village with four other trainees and a language and culture facilitator (LCF). And sone days we bike about 25 minutes to the larger city for training sessions with the other 33 volunteers.

5:00am: chickens and farm animals start their noise
5:25am: my host mom sweeps the floor
6:00am: I stop pretending to sleep because I have been up since the animals started making their noise
6:15am: Bucket bath
6:45am: Breakfast (usually baguette and tea)
7:00am: prep for
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