So this last week earns the title of being the hardest of my time in Vicco so far. Monday was it´s own sort of stress. I went early to the Escuela because I knew getting a room was going to be dodgy. I caught the portera (door/groundskeeper) there and she clearly didn´t want to help me. She kept refusing to open classrooms for me, and wouldn´t tell me her cell number for the future if I needed to contact her. After an hour of her trying to not give me a room, we finally settled on the Salon de Actas room which is like the assembly room. We moved 4 desks, which would seat about 12 kids, into the big area, and then I went to get a copy made of the room´s key. After a lot of time trying to get that done, I needed to leave to get lunch before class. I was gone exactly 20 minutes. In that time, the Portera locked the door and left. I had no way of contacting her. She knew exactly when I was going to teach, and purposely locked me out. It was incredibly frustrating. We managed to go in the back door, and I taught my little group of 11 kids. I had one cutey, 6 years old, so I just had her draw most of the time. The other kids are around 8 or 9 years old, with two being 11 and 12. Those two boys know a lot more English, and its fun giving them more advanced tidbits.
The real stress came Tuesday. I went to the high school again early. The director was actually there with a couple other people, but they all left around 1:30pm. I waited 2 hours after my class should have started and not a single kid showed. It was very, very disheartening. I don´t understand it either. I advertised it as much as the elementary school. I´m not sure what I´m going to do about it. I had such great plans for them to help me with my Community Diagnostic that I need to write.
Another big stressor this week is that I couldn´t get any meetings with the people I was trying to. I couldn´t talk to my SERNANP guy or the mayor. I feel so stranded here. I´m supposed to have a Peruvian counterpart in Vicco that helps me and does some of the work too. I have nobody. I´m trying to do everything by myself, and it just isn´t enough. I can´t organize meetings by myself. And I need to, I need to meet with the organizations in Vicco. It´s been hard to deal with, but I am perservering. I know I just need more time. I´m not a failure, even if I´m not the best right now. I am doing some things; I just want to be able to do everything I have plans for right now.
Had to make this blog really quick (as in 4 minutes) because I need to log off now. Spent a long time chatting with my mom which helped boost my spirits and set me back thinking of what I CAN do instead of CANT. I´m also looking forward to our regional meeting that´s next week, down in Huancayo. I´ll receive my Xmas present laptop brought back from a Volunteer who spent Christmas in the States. Things will be a ton easier when I can type of documents on my own laptop. So thinking positive.
Love you all.
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