April 28-May 4: Peace Corps Site Visit and Labor Day

At the schools, nothing was too crazy this week. I continued meeting and planning with my servicio communal students at the colegio and similarly continued my workshops at the escuela. I was also gifted with a holiday as Thursday was Labor Day in Costa Rica. I didn’t really need a holiday so close to Easter, but hey, I’m not complaining. 

The most interesting thing that happened at the centros educativos was my Peace Corps site visit. In total, Peace Corps staff from the volunteer’s program team (for me, Youth Development) visit each volunteer’s site 3 times over the course of the two-year service. This was the second of three visits at my site. Forgive me if I explained this process in a blog after my first site visit, (I honestly can’t remember) but these site visits are pretty comprehensive. The member from the program team visits both academic institutions and meets with counterparts at each with both the volunteer present and without the volunteer there. Additionally, the staff member also visits the volunteer’s house and meets with the host family. It involves a lot of moving parts, so creating the site visits for staff ends up being one of the more difficult assignments I have as a volunteer. As chaotic as it could’ve been, I feel like things went well on my site visit all things considered.


My weekend wasn’t particularly busy. On Saturday, I slept in and went to a matinee showing of the movie “Sinners” (which I can’t recommend enough) in Curridabat, a suburb nearby. Living in an area with access to things like movie theaters is a HUGE plus about my site. And although the cost of living in Costa Rica is pretty high, movie tickets here are cheap - I only spent $4 USD on my ticket. Sunday, I ventured back into San José to run with my Sunday running group before catching up on Peace Corps assignments the rest of the day.

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