Post by jonsdigs on Jan 7, 2007 0:10:36 GMT -5
Ready to brave rabid bats
News and Star (England)
Published on 05/01/2007
NEW year, new continent - 19-year-old Stacy Clark, of Workington, is about to embark on a three-month voluntary teaching assignment in Peru.
Stacy, of Stainburn Road, is packing her bags in readiness for what will be the experience of her lifetime and she has already taken steps to make sure she does not catch rabies from the jungle bats.
She said: “Yes, the bats are rabid and there are snakes which drop out of the trees on to their prey but our accommodation is built to keep out the jungle wildlife and I’ve had so many precautionary injections that my arm feels like a pin cushion.”
Stacy, who has long-term ambitions to be a dentist, flies out to Peru on February 2 to work under the umbrella of the international charity I-to-I.
Her job, working with a partner, is to teach English to a group of Peruvians who need to master the language in order to introduce tourists to the rainforest and the campaign for its conservation.
The first part of the assignment will be four days in the capital Lima, where she will brush up her Spanish and also get a feel for Peru’s culture, customs and cuisine, which includes roasted guinea pigs.
After that, there is another flight to the gold-mining town of Puerto Maldonada, which is followed by a 90-minute boat journey up the River Orinoco to the I-to-I settlement - which provides the most basic of facilities. The buildings are on stilts and there is no running water or electricity.
She is taking a mobile solar panel to keep her mobile phone charged and hopes to keep in contact with her family and friends - including mum and dad Denise and Nigel and brother and sister Nigel and Tamsin.
Stacy, a former Keswick School pupil has already qualified as a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) teacher and is looking forward to the adventure.
She said: “I’m going for the experience and to become part of a very different culture.
“I did A-level biology and have always been interested in wildlife and in conservation.
“I’m aware of the things I’ll be missing and one of the last things I intend to do in Workington is to sit down to a good old fashioned roast Sunday lunch.”
The trip is costing Stacy around £5,000 and she has just about scraped together the total thanks to her own efforts and to donations from local companies, including B&Q in Workington where she has been working since July as a customer adviser.
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News and Star (England)
Published on 05/01/2007
NEW year, new continent - 19-year-old Stacy Clark, of Workington, is about to embark on a three-month voluntary teaching assignment in Peru.
Stacy, of Stainburn Road, is packing her bags in readiness for what will be the experience of her lifetime and she has already taken steps to make sure she does not catch rabies from the jungle bats.
She said: “Yes, the bats are rabid and there are snakes which drop out of the trees on to their prey but our accommodation is built to keep out the jungle wildlife and I’ve had so many precautionary injections that my arm feels like a pin cushion.”
Stacy, who has long-term ambitions to be a dentist, flies out to Peru on February 2 to work under the umbrella of the international charity I-to-I.
Her job, working with a partner, is to teach English to a group of Peruvians who need to master the language in order to introduce tourists to the rainforest and the campaign for its conservation.
The first part of the assignment will be four days in the capital Lima, where she will brush up her Spanish and also get a feel for Peru’s culture, customs and cuisine, which includes roasted guinea pigs.
After that, there is another flight to the gold-mining town of Puerto Maldonada, which is followed by a 90-minute boat journey up the River Orinoco to the I-to-I settlement - which provides the most basic of facilities. The buildings are on stilts and there is no running water or electricity.
She is taking a mobile solar panel to keep her mobile phone charged and hopes to keep in contact with her family and friends - including mum and dad Denise and Nigel and brother and sister Nigel and Tamsin.
Stacy, a former Keswick School pupil has already qualified as a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) teacher and is looking forward to the adventure.
She said: “I’m going for the experience and to become part of a very different culture.
“I did A-level biology and have always been interested in wildlife and in conservation.
“I’m aware of the things I’ll be missing and one of the last things I intend to do in Workington is to sit down to a good old fashioned roast Sunday lunch.”
The trip is costing Stacy around £5,000 and she has just about scraped together the total thanks to her own efforts and to donations from local companies, including B&Q in Workington where she has been working since July as a customer adviser.
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