teacher trainings

Today was our first away teacher training in the Ak Su region. This is the area where the mountains are amazing and I try to escape to on the weekends. When travelling through, school teeachers never crossed my mind. It's always stressful to depend on someone else to do the set up, recruitment, and foot work when planning anything. Letting go of that element of control is something that is hard for me to do. I took a bus with Asilgul (the newly appointed president of FORUM) and went to the unknown school. Expecting 15 or 20 teachers, I was taken back with 36 teachers crowded into the classroom. Before that point I wasn't really sure what our audience would be, IF people were only talking about trainings or if it was something that there would be follow through. Needless to say, my worries have been put to rest. They also are asking about Peace Corps applications and getting a English teacher volunteer. It's exciting to start helping in that process and hard to believe that my replacement will be arriving in country in 6 months.