Some Proper News: Switching Teams

An email appeared in my inbox this morning from our placement officer and the first thing that went through my head was that Peace Corps was pulling us out of our program or that we were getting our departure date pushed back. Something really horrible. However, it was simply a question on behalf of the Peace Corps/El Salvador staff wondering as to whether I'd like to switch over the the Youth Development program from the Municipal Development program.

I of course said yes.

I must admit that I was actually disappointed and scared at first when I found out that I was going to do Municipal Development instead of Youth Development. I have come to terms now with it and after having done research I decided that I could actually do plenty of good work as a Municipal Developer and enjoy it as well.

Now that I accepted to be switched over, it's like getting invited all over again! I have to read new informational material, switch around the blogs in my Firefox tabs so that I can read YD blogs instead of Muni-Dev, get excited again about being able to teach and how the plan is coming together again as it was meant to. Will is happy and I'm happy.

However, now there is a bit of uncertainty as it seems that because we are now in different programs we will have to live separately, as our programs seem to train in different towns. Well, if that's the way it is. There's only an up-side to it: Will's Spanish will improve even more by leaps and jumps and we can compare our host-family experiences like we did when we lived in Sevilla.

Either way, everyone wins.