One of the rites of passage to become a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua is creating a youth group and doing a project with your youth group during training. I posted a long time ago about my youth group, but never posted the pictures to prove that we got our project done. At long last, here they are!
Here was our first youth group meeting:
One of the requirements for training is that we give two
charlas, or workshops, to the kids on issues relevant to them. They wanted a
charla about how to prepare for a job interview. The night of the presentation, the power went out, so we did it by candlelight.
The youth group also played a lot of games like Uno.
To raise money for our sign project, we had a soup sale where we made soup, sold buckets of it to people in the town, then delivered it to them for lunch.
It was a success, but I think Shannon and I did more than our fair share of vegetable chopping.
Here's the old sign; the plan was to dig it up and put the new one in its place.
But it was quickly decided that they'd just put the new sign in front of the old sign, then remove the old sign later. As far as I know, the old sign still stands directly behind the new one.
At the end of training, we had a presentation and celebration for all the youth groups from our five training towns. Here's our group giving its presentation:
And here's our official youth group portrait:
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