The END is nigh....

Not really. But today the dates of our COS conference were announced. COS (Close of Service) is the last conference we ever have as Peace Corps Volunteers. It is going to be held the first week in January, 3 months before we leave Guyana. In the conference we go over things like readjusting to life back in the States, finding a job, writing a resume, and all the millions of details we have to wrap up in Guyana, like writing a description of our entire service, doing a final medical check-up, blah, blah, blah. The COS conference marks the true beginning to the end, and it is only 4 ½ months away. This seems CRAZY to me (see previous post about time passing and readiness to leave or not).

To keep you more au courant with what is actually going on in our lives now, instead of 4 ½ months in the future, and as we say in Guyana, 'here wha happen':

• I have the flu. This sucks. It is about 90 degrees in Linden but it feels like 99. There is no breeze other than what my tired fan pumps out. I am stuffy and sneezy. Having the flu in Guyana SUCKS! I stayed home from work today and Tim stopped by at lunch to bring me a pineapple for vitamin C. I ate the entire thing, almost. Neither of us want me to be sick on our vacation. We leave next week Wednesday.

• Tim is being Super PCV these days. For a while now he has offered to help teach at the teaching college in Linden but they haven't needed him until now. Last week the head of the school asked Tim to teach a class to the teachers in training on using technology in the classroom. An interesting topic in a developing country. He went to a one-day workshop on Monday go over to the modules he is expected to teach. He began teaching on Tuesday. Everyday from 2-4:30 Tim works with a class of 30+ students in a computer lab with 7 working computers and no internet. He is expected to teach them all about Microsoft applications and how to use the internet, projectors, printers, make movies and websites. His students have a range of experience with computers, some own laptops, some have never held a mouse before. I am not sure how Tim is going to pull this off. But I am confident that he will. He is passionate and dedicated and awesome. I will let him write more about his own experience later.