Wednesday is my group’s COS conference. On that day, we all travel to Managua to take
out language exams and then get put up in a hotel with hot water and
internet! About language exams, it’s a
tiered system of Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each tier has a sub-level of Low, Medium and
High. For example, in November 2011 I
was classified as Intermediate-High.
While I find these tests completely subjective and silly (I can
obviously speak Spanish, why do we need to qualify it?), I still hope to
improve to Advanced-Low.
Thursday morning, we travel to Granada and check into an
even nicer French style hotel. Then it’s
non-stop presentations until Friday afternoon about work sustainability, reverse
culture shock, job searching and grad school applications. We will also receive a mountain of paperwork
and assignments to complete before we can leave on the date that they’ll tell
us. Right now that date is July 26th
but we’re all hoping that it’ll be sooner.
I’m sure that it’ll be exciting and bittersweet. Yesterday marked our 23rd month in
country and 19/21 of us are still here (the other two left with honorable
discharge even though they didn’t want to go).
Between the marathon sessions of presentations hopefully there will be
talk of future plans and reunions. Biz
Na$ty 56 fo life!
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