Peace Corps in Guatemala

Saturday, August 28, 2010

First Post

Hi everyone! Just checking into see how this is all going to work. I will be hopefully updating and playing around with the configurations as I get more time with the limited internet connection I have available!

I will report that everything is going very well here in Guatemala. I love the culture and the sceanery. I am living currently with a great host family that takes great care of me. Days are busy and filled with Spanish classes and technical training and a whole host of training for everything you can imagine. I hope to update you all on a some what routine basis with my developing assignment and things I will be doing! I will also add some pictures and let you know all about my trials and tribulations as I am on this journey.

Thanks so much for all the support!

Quotes

Maybe being grateful is recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories, admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know and maybe we're thankful for the things we will never know. At the end of the day the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

“You are responsible for exactly who, what, and where you are in life. That will be just as true this time next year. Situations aren’t important. How you react to them is.”

“The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.”
- Sargent Shriver

I believe that the single most significant decisions I can make on a day to day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my pas, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier to high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.