12/13 Gardening and making lesson plans

We had a short call with Corie before her cell battery died. (She had just talked with her sister Jaime prior to our call.) Corie is busy making lesson plans to teach environmental classes in the elementary school after the new year begins. She'll be meeting with the principal sometime this week about her ideas. She's busy putting in her garden and has planted lettuce, corn, cantalope, pumpkin, zucchini and beans. She's been meeting new people and they have been very friendly. She told us she's learned a lot from her last experience and is not as concerned with all the drama that can happen in a small village. She just wants to do her work, stay active in the community and not worry about the inevitable gossip or whether people like her or not. She'll soon be visiting another PC volunteer in her village and helping to plant rice on her way up north to Diego to spend the holidays with other PC folks. That's it for now...happy holidays everyone!