Wi in St. Thomas Parish!

After 3 weeks in St. Catherine Parish, we all packed up and moved about 1 hour east of Kingston to a small community in St. Thomas. Our group is now 14 PC trainees who all will become teachers in primary schools. (The other 16 of our cohort are in another town preparing as environmental volunteers.)

Goodbyes to di pikney dem

...with our neighbors

Our goodbyes were emotional – we became very close to our host families, and especially “di pikney, dem” (kids) were hard to say goodbye too.

Here is a quick pix of our training center – it is designed as a typical bush (rural) classroom. We also walked our neighborhood today, including a stop at the fishing beach.  It’s been HOT – hydration is a continuing goal (I drank 3 liters of ‘watta’ before our first break this morning).

Our training classrooms

We have cellular internet in our new host family house, so we will try to keep this blog updated.

Unloading our 'stuff' at our new training site

"Fishing Beach" at St. Thomas Parish

We welcome your comments and questions about our Peace Corps training --- STEVE & IRENE