Feb 17 – March 3: In Service Training (IST)
After struggling for our first 3 months at site with language, cultural, and integration issues, as well as having absolutely no work projects to do, IST arrived just in time to prevent complete insanity. Our entire stage of new volunteers were once again reunited for an intensive technical training. We learned techniques for teaching and working with Senegalese, project management, and various funding sources for our projects.
The business volunteers’ training also required us to give a 1 hour business lesson, taught completely in French. This proved somewhat challenging, but was an excellent warm up as there is little French spoken in my town and I therefore will be teaching business classes in Wolof only. Yikes!
After being out of site for an entire month, I’m ready to go back “home” and very eager to start working. Wish me luck and success!
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Byron Yee
Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009
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