In-country Training
Aug 10 2009 at 1:26pm EDT
The first three months of my Peace Corps service was spent at the in-country training site. Believe it or not, we are pictured here on a breezeway between buildings at the University of M'Biki, located in the rain forest region of southwestern Central African Republic. The intensive training classes focused on three areas: Language (French and Sango), Project Development and Management, and Cross-Cultural Studies. Incidently, we were not permitted to speak in English, except in our barricks at night. Total immersion is the quickest way to learn a second (and third) language, but the stress of training in a language you don't understand sent some of the people pictured here home.
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