Saturday, August 04, 2007

Sat, Dec 23, 2006; HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!


Merry Christmas - Tongan style!



hi everyone!!
i just wanted to wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! i hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season and that you have great christmases, or hannakuhs and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

i will be spending my holiday going to church with my host family and then eating a feast and then maybe going to the beach and then going into town to have a little party with the other peace corps volunteers (our group of 15) and then going back home for a barbecue and maybe singing. it should be lovely. today i am also going to be spending the afternoon baking tons of cookies for my host family. i hope they like cookies!! it is kind of nice to be someplace that is totally lacking the commercialism of christmas and nobody really gives presents or anything. it's just about being with your family, which is nice!

in other news...i found out my placement site on friday. drum roll please!!
i will be spending the next two years working in the main city of Nuku'alofa on the island of Tongatapu. I will be working at the Ministry of Education helping to create a Special Education program for Tonga. Primarily I will be working to train one other teacher to teach in the first Special Ed classroom which will become the model classroom for the rest of Tonga. It is really exciting to be able to be a part of such an important addition to the education system here, so i am very excited! i also might be able to help the Ministry of Health in promoting running and their daily 30 minute walk for health after work program. They hold walks for 30 minutes after the work day along the beach by the main city. I"m thinking I will try to get some people from tthe group to start running. There is also a possibility I might be helping to recruit and train athletes for the upcoming South Pacific Games as well, although I might be too busy with the Special Education job at first.

I will send everyone my updated contact information when I get it.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AGAIN!!

love,
carly

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