The Guesssing Game: Round 1049

During on of my usual visits to peacecorps2 on Yahoo! I happend to come across the following message:

"I am a trainee in Honduras right now and just wanted to let you nominees know that there is a program coming in February and in June. I know for sure that the June 2006 program is for Youth Development, Municipal Development, and one other (that I don´t know). Hope this helps someone out there. Honduras used to be 3 cycles of training a year, but they´re moving back to 2 cycles."

This came in an email to me yesterday:

"I left on June 6th for staging in Washington and arrived in El Salvador on June 8th. Everyone in my group arrived thinking they would be a Municipal Development volunteer. About two weeks before we left we recieved a letter that they were starting the youth development program...There is not enough time in the year to allow youth development volunteers to have their own training so they will be included in each of the groups that come in...We have a couple in my group who have split between youth and municipal development which I assume is what you and your partner will do. They live in a canton which is where all the youth development people live instead of in the pueblo where us municipal development volunteers live. The focus of the youth program is to teach english and computer technology."

I'm not sure where I read this, must have been in another blog, but apparently teaching ESL is becoming an integral part of the Youth Development program in Honduras. If Honduras and El Salvador don't sound like possible invitations then I don't know what does! These two countries are the only ones I've been able to read about which have our exact nomination. I'm telling you, Peace Corps MUST already know where we're going. I suppose keeping the secret to the very end is a way to avoid getting blamed for things in the event that a prospective volunteer makes major changes too soon before departure, like quitting their tenured job at a university, selling their house, giving away all of their furniture, ect.