Well, after almost 3 months in Minnesota it seems that we are moving. The fact is that we will change the agency we work for, the new placement will be Maine, sorrounded by the same amount of snow as we have here, but with other GEO fellows who live around the area. The reasons why we are moving are different and diverse. I just want to point that these 3 months have been very hard sometimes, but that I have also learnt profesional and personel things that I bring with me. I also feel thankful for the people whi has helped us and tried to make our stay nice and warm. But sometimes in life there are things that don't work and it is not anybody's fault.
This last 3 months we've been working a lot. I have had the chance to know different parts of the agency, different programs with different kind of clients, less restrictive environments.
The American working environment is still sometimes difficult to understand for me, and sometimes amazing. Here is normal that the Youth Counselors don't have any degree or studies related with the job they are doing, and is also very common that the people need to have 2, or even sometimes 3 jobs.
It still aplies the rule that the Americans are very nice in words but sometimes they don't really mean what they are saying. Once you get used you understand when it is real and when it is just politeness.
Unfortunatelly, two of the GEO fellows who were with us left by the end of December, that was one of the things that made these times even more hard. Lonelyness is something we can feel here, and sometimes have been hard to handle.
Looking forward to start a new episode of this adventure in Maine!
Here two nice pictures of Minnesota. The first one, the average temperature of these days in Celsius, the second one, standing on the water of Mississipi River!
