About me:
I am a young UCLA Alumn (Class of 2010) that has been invited to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique. I will be working as a Community Health Promoter, focusing on HIV/AIDS education and awareness. My cohort will also be focused on issues concerning Malaria Awareness and Nutrition education.
I am officially re-dedicating this blog (previously titled “chicana iconography”) to my upcoming adventure in Africa.
I leave to staging in Philly in 14 days where I will meet up with the rest of my cohort and part-take in an intensive, full day of orientation. On May 30th, around 2am, we will be picked up by a bus and taken to JFK Int. Airport in New York, where we will depart straight to South Africa. We will have a short lay-over in South Africa before flying to Mozambique. After two short days in Maputo (Mozambique’s capital city), we will be taken to Namaacha, our training village, where we will live for the first 10 weeks. These 10 weeks will be packed with intensive language, cultural, and technical training. After completing 3 months of training, we will be officially sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers and spread out through different rural and urban areas in Mozambique. I may be placed in a locality where I am the only volunteer, or I may have a site mate or two.
I am excited to start this new phase in my life and hope to keep my friends, family, and frankly, anyone interested in reading this blog with updates as I travel across the globe and begin my life’s dream of working in development and social empowerment.
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