Monday, January 4, 2010

A Possible Change of Plans

I am supposed to volunteer teaching english on the beach in El Salvador, and the people have been flaking getting back to me. The terms also were that I would get a private room in a hostel for $135/month, and now apparently, that is not the case. I am volunteering my time and skills, which is fine, but I do not appreciate the lack of answers I am receiving to my questions. I have traveled a lot in Central America and I am not very uptight about things, but what if the case were different? They are not telling me what I need to know.
So, for the past few weeks I have told them via emails, that if the hostel room is not as affordable as I thought it was, I may only volunteer for one month. Maybe I will go back to the US a month early, which means a month of making money instead of spending it. Who knows. I don't even feel like going to El Zonte, to tell you the truth. The girl who started the “organization” (who is a friend of a friend) is not even in El Salvador, and what was presented as a casually- structured program with specific protocol seems to be completely unorganized, perhaps even non-existent.

I know I do not want to just come back to the lake either, so this is not even a matter of wanting to party instead of teaching in a quiet beach village. It is the principle of being told one set of things months ago, and then being blown off and not told vital information.

I could have taught at the month-long winter camp I taught at last year in Korea, where they pay for your flight and pay you. And then I would have taken a cooking course in Thailand. This- this was my other option for the winter, and instead I chose to do this El Zonte thing. We'll see.

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