Berre ein liten oppdatering, på norsk i dag. Det går framleis greitt å kommunisera med enkle gloser, peiking, smiling og diverse andre rare kroppsuttrykk. Det blir dog ikkje dei heilt store djupe filosofiske diskusjonane.

Har nå møtt Fidencio, Alba og Byron som er tidlegare fredskorpsdeltakerar, dei snakkar bra norsk og fungerar godt som tolkar.
Møtte pa mandag dei to fredskorpsdeltakerane som skal til Stord i 2010, reknar med at me kan læra litt av kvarandre før dei reiser.

I dag var me med pa eit mote i eit miljoutvalg i kommunen, der traff me ei amerikansk jente ved navn Morgan, som er fredskorpsdeltakar fra USA. Ein hyggelig overraskelse. 

Nedanfor folger litt bilder.

The flight went great, pretty much everything worked as a charm. At the airport in Guatemala city we were met by a friendly happy bunch that brought us the rest part of the way. After more than 24 hours travelling we finally arrived at the place we are staying in San Juan Comalapa at around 1-1:30 (Guatemalan time) tonight. Woke up early today to loud music, bangs, cars, roosters, dogs. The sun is shining, the weather is fine, so far so good!

But still, it was a long flight, and a long wait in Mexico city:

Btw: First encounter with an “normal” guatemalan (that is non-fredskorpset-aware): “hey man, that’s a cool beard”

This blogpost is (mostly) written during the flight from Amsterdam to Mexico.

The three weeks we spent at the Fredskorpset preparatory course at Hotel Hadeland was three very interesting weeks. I’ve laughed, played, made new friends and learned a lot about myself and others. The best lecture for me was without a doubt the two days we were working on personal challenges, with Peter Harris and Berit Eik  from wolf&water. I really enjoyed their positive attitude and the way they did their things. Other than that Sara Henkmans’ thoughts regarding peacebuilding was interesting and Pellegrino Riccardis’ lecture on cultural differences was really good (mostly thanks to Pellegrinos amazing abillity to hold on to the crowds attention: even in a room of 60+ tired and hungover people the guy managed to make the hours fly simply by standing in the middle of the room and talking!). Also the day on physical health was quite informative. One of the days we had some hours with “Open space”, where we simply put sat in groups discussing different themes we came up with, it was a good way to get new ideas and challenge ones own opinions. Besides the lectures it was a really interesting experience to live three weeks with so many great people from different parts of the world. If the world consisted of such openminded, happy and loveable people it would be a totally different place indeed.

Norsk:

I denne bloggen vil eg dela bilde og opplevingar frå tida mi i Guatemala. I Guatemala skal eg arbeida med miljøarbeid/-informasjon og førebyggjande arbeid blant ungdom. Arbeidet er eit utvekslingsprosjekt mellom Stord kommune, Norge og Comalapa, Guatemala. Prosjektet er støtta av fredskorpset.
Bloggen blir truleg ein god blanding av norsk og engelsk, og etterkvart litt spansk

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English:

This is a semi-unofficial blog for my stay in Comalapa, Guatemala. I’ll be doing some environmental work, and I’ll also work with the youth (teaching and/or sports). The work is supported by fredskorpset.
The blog will probably be a combination of norwegian and english, and hopefully some spanish

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