July 15- Months 9 and 10 Work Post
I’ve been in Benin for a bit more than a year now, an official volunteer after training for exactly 10 months. It’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. I celebrated my one year arrival in country anniversary, June 27, in the best way I could imagine – welcoming the new group of 52 volunteers to Benin. Myself and another volunteer were selected to be their trainers during orientation week. It was a hectic time, running around making sure everyone got to the various interviews with program staff, had headshots taken, signed paperwork, got food to eat… all while answering question after question. The new volunteers are wonderful, and their enthusiasm renewed my excitement for being here as well. This is really a pretty neat thing we’re doing. For now I’m back in post, but I’ll be traveling back south (where all the training takes place) in about a month to do technical training with the Environment volunteers. In village, the days of sitting around and wondering