Details of where I'll be

Snippet from one of our Staging Letters:

Orientation

Accommodations

We have a very full and intense schedule planned during the first few days of the “Arrival Event”. Activities include administrative matters, safety and security, specific program information, an orientation to Community Based Training (CBT) and the area of Cayambe where CBT will take place, a medical orientation (including vaccinations!), information on aspects of culture, and “Survival Spanish” classes.  PLEASE PACK A SEPARATE BAG FOR THESE FIRST FEW DAYS.  Trainees will spend the first four nights in the Hostal San Javier, with the first day’s activities taking place in the Peace Corps Office in Quito.  Accommodations in this hostel, located 15 minutes from the PC Office, include shared rooms to which there will be assigned 2–5 Trainees, private bathrooms in each room, hot water, and breakfast served in the morning during the Arrival Event.  Couples will have private rooms.  Trainees will be provided with bottled drinking water as it is not recommended to drink the tap water.  

There will be phones available at the hour of Trainee arrival, with international access.  All phone calls must be paid for individually by Trainees, in cash, before leaving the hostel.  Sunday morning, after the programmed activities for the Arrival Event, Trainees will travel by public bus to Cayambe, a town north of Quito (1 ½ hours), accompanied by their Language Facilitators, to their host family sites. These sites are within 30 minutes of Cayambe.  Trainees will meet and have lunch with their host families with whom they will live throughout approximately eight of the 9 weeks of Pre-Service Training.

Pretty exciting stuff!