Sunday, October 11, 2009

Women in Youth Development Camp

Kelly is a member of a committee of Peace Corps Volunteers that organizes scholarships and workshops for young Salvadoran women. Here, scholarship recipients participate in an activity about gender stereotypes and biases.



The participants received certificates at the end of the two-day workshop.




future leaders of El Salvador!!!!



The workshop was held at a rustic government-owned workers’ center. We slept in bunk beds in cabins. The perk is that the lodging is free. After the workshop ended, the two of us stayed another night on the lake but in a nearby hotel. This is the view of the hotel’s restaurant on the pier.




Kelly enjoying the lake and protecting herself from stray dogs with a stick



We asked some guy to take our picture, but he stood way too close to us.



This is what it looks like when you put your feet in Lake Coatepeque.



The lake is in the crater of a has-been volcano and, for that reason, is unusually warm and extremely deep. On our way home from the lake we tried to visit a cool archeological site. It took a good two hours out of our day only to discover it was closed. We shamelessly begged the guard to let us in, which did not work.

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