Meet Melba!
Melba is Shecana’s representative and organizer par excellence in Villavicencio. Already busy with her work as a teacher work, Melba has worked long hours to establish our Shecana program in Colombia. She’s explained the program in her community and arranged for top-notch school and host families for our Canadian students. One of her biggest jobs has been hunting down and stick-handling documents through government channels to ensure that everyone has the right paperwork in place – no small matter! We’re looking forward to meeting up with Melba and Derek, Jenna’s and Matthew’s host families in Villavicencio in just over a week.
As a teacher who has travelled and lived overseas in the UK and USA, as well as a month-long stay in Canada last year, Melba has the experience to understand our Canadian students’ perspective as they embrace the challenge of living and attending school in a foreign country.
Thanks, Melba, for the weather links: http://www.tutiempo.net/tiempo/Villavicencio_Vanguardia/SKVV.htm and http://clima.starmedia.com/sudamerica/colombia/villavicencio/. (Nice warm temperatures, but it looks like your advice to bring a raincoat/jacket and an umbrella is wise.)
