Today I spoke with Cindy, who is second in command here at Renacer and she is tica, about how I was feeling about the program and the girls. I told her that I was really impressed with the quality and set up of the program and how the girls respond. She asked me with what phases of the program I would really like to work with. I told her I really didn’t have a preference and I believe I could do work well with all the phases.
We also discussed what my role would be, Formacion Cristiana (Christian formation) or Trabajadora social (social worker). I went out on a limb and asked if I would be able to split my time between the two since I would love to do both and feel that I’m qualified to do both.
The result was that I would start with tallers (workshops) from the social worker perspective with the highest two cottages (Deborah and Tamara) and I would do Formacion Cristiana with the first two phases (Rut and Ester). She asked me if I would start by doing 4 tallers next week, one on each of the 4 core things; respect, responsibility, honesty, and acceptance.
As you can imagine I was a bit overwhelmed by this task. So I asked if I could just do 2 and gradually work up to the 4 since it takes a lot more time to prepare in Spanish. She said yes and gave 2 tallers on respect and responsibility, which will be an hour and half each. She also wants me to come up with a sport type activity that combines the two, which also is an hour and half long. I have to have my write ups in on Monday.
Wow! This is really happening! I’m overwhelmed, but excited as well. I’m glad to start my actually work now. It’s time to start planning.
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