Tag Archives: PCTs

Retrained: Revisiting PST

As I mentioned before, I’d been invited to PST to teach a couple classes in government schools for the new group (N/196) to observe. But observe what? The new group has lots of energy and interest in their jobs.
This could go without saying, but some groups are more casual about work. Yes, we’re volunteers for [...]

First impressions

Due to a glitch in the Peace Corps mechanism, I’ve been asked to come to the Peace Corps PST training site and teach in a class while the new folks, PCTs, watch. I could fly, but I’ve decided to take a bus to Bhairahawa, where PST is being held.
I have a plan of gradually traveling [...]

Unanswered prayers

I finished up my last week at school by giving an exam. Something like a pop quiz, except it involved excessive and indiscreet cheating by the students.
What do you do when you’re in a classroom the size of a bedroom with 60 students sitting in benches at tables that even the strictest Puritan would deem [...]