Skype is working pretty well. She calls us when her phone is on and charged. We talk for one minute, plug in our earphones (one ear for Cindy, the other for me) then we call her back on Skype with our computer. While she was doing her in-service training in Tana in early August, she met the U.S. Ambassador in the capital. At her IST (In-Service-Training... PC loves those acronyms) where she learned about grant-writing and solidified her project ideas. When she got back to her village she went to a concert & fair in her banking town, Maroantsetra. Then back in her village to lead her Environmental Club (5 high school kids) on a short camping trip to a small nearby island, Nosy Mangabe.
They took a short boat ride to the island, hiked around all day in the rain, all made notes in their notebooks, saw lemurs & their babies, special rare frogs and lizards including one that looks like a leaf and stayed overnight in the island shelter and pitched their tents. She said it was really fun, but raining much too hard at night to do their planned night hike. Then the boat ride back to her banking town they decided to all stay overnight at Cories rented house in Maroantsetra ( she chips in rent with other PCV's and it acts like a base camp they share in the banking town). We might stay there when we visit her this summer. It has electricity!
Projects she is now working on include:
> Finding money to raise chickens for profit and building their coops
> building fuel-efficient clay stoves for better heat and using much less wood (see flyer)
>Teaching the Environmental Club
> teaching a higher yield rice planting method
> painting murals
> re-stocking the village library with better books, organizing a library open house and getting more folks to start library cards
She finished another mural on the side of a friend's house/store in her village. They sell coffee, beer and bread. the subject matter was 2 friends sitting at a table drinking coffee, one white and one black. They loved it! That's it for now!
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