The last week has been pretty exciting, as usual. A new intern, Joel, has arrived and it has been fun to get around with him and see how much I have already learned since I got here.

Work has continually been changing here. The office is planning to move to Miguel's house, the only other employee of Eagle Condor here in Trujillo, in mid-July. I think Eagle C has made a huge mistake laying off my neighbor presidente Silva, instead of the other worker here. We are no longer giving any loans out to people until more start to pay back what we have loaned them. It is almost a 50% pay back rate right now, which is terrible.

I have continued to prepare classes as well for the monthly trainings in how to budget and keep better track of expenses. Because of this lay-off, all the programs here have also been suspended. We were planning on starting a class o business management mid-june, which I have been preparing many slides and presentations for, but now the class will not likely start until the end of August, which means some one else will be teaching with my slides. That is acceptable, but kind of dissapointing. The good thing about this change is that I have been asked to prepare an evaluation of the company and I have prepared it, while being reasonable and uplifting, but at the same time very direct about what the issues that I have seen that are hindering this NGO.

I also submitted a few paged paper on what should happen to get interns with good experience, as Miguel said that he wished all interns had a specialty and a knowledge of something business oriented, like I do in Accounting. He does not want to receive any more interns that do not have business classes and experience. The report that I submitted was sent to the chairman of the NGO in Salt Lake and he said that he liked it and was going to start carrying out the process that I outlined in the paper. It is fun to be able to suggest change and see it become implemented.

We were present at an open house thing at a stake center for a job/ employment training workshop. It was fun to talk to all the people and tell them what we do, but we can't give them loans anymore, just some basic training of how to carry out their business. Below are some fun pictures of the last week.
My favorite location to hang out and read- the techo. The view in this picture doesn't do it justice.
Joel and I went to a little beach town called Puerto Chicama this weekend to see a few of his friends traveling here from California and to surf a little here on the longest lefty wave in the entire world.
Here is the longest left wave(wave that falls to the left, better for goofy footed surfers) in the world. I rented a board a went out for a bit but the current again carried me to some big rocks and I bloodied my knuckles and foot a bit. Nothing serious though- no worries. This was the weather for the weekend, overcast, windy, and slightly misting most of the time. Familiar beach weather?
Our hostal- "el Hombre" that we stayed at for the night.