A billion things have happened since my last post, I apologize for not keeping it up to date at all. :(
As you know from the title, I am back in El Paso. And no, not just for a visit, but permanently. I decided to "early terminate" my service around Christmas time.
After a successful training and Swearing In ceremony, I was assigned to the island if Pentecost, to the village of Melsisi. I was going to teach 9th and 10th graders basic mouse and keyboarding, plus some MS Word and PowerPoint. The school does not have electricity, so the lab with five computers was going to have generator power. The site also does not have Internet.
So the two main things that happened once I got out there were homesickness and that I just felt like I wasn't going to have enough 'work' to fill my time with and look back after two years to be proud of accomplishments. Don't get me wrong, it's enough of an accomplishment to be a volunteer out there on a daily basis. Cooking over fire, killing your own crabs, fish, and chickens, and talking Bislama and navigating their non-existent dating world is quite a feat.
But I just felt like, in the end, it wasn't for me. It was a difficult decision to make, because I really felt like a quitter and like I was letting down my group, office staff and local host family members and friends. I struggled with the decision for about a week, but in the end, I started getting real depressed and anxious to go home.
I arrived in El Paso on January 4th.
I plan on writing more entires about all the experiences I had during the three months I spent in Vanuatu. So it will be 'blogs from the past' instead of up-to-date stuff.
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