I work here.

Yesterday was the real start to my internship. I accompanied Michelle, one of my housemates and the person in charge of OMG schools in Aurora Province, to Diarabasin School. We had to take an hour long bus ride to get to the school, up and over twisty-turny mountain roads. The drive was absolutely beautiful. In this particular school there are forty participants in the OMG program– they are responsible for growing and harvesting the vegetables in the OMG gardens. There are three hundred students enrolled at Diarabasin but not all can participate in the program– I think the teachers and principals decide who they think will benefit the most from the program. The children that will benefit the most are those that are malnourished. The vegetables grown in the garden are consumed by the OMG students, and the excess is sold at the market. The money is used to buy new tools or supplies for the garden. We spent the whole day at the school. We checked out the garden, planted tomatoes, harvested eggplants and tomatoes, and then we just played with the kids. It was so great! This is one of the five schools, next week I will visit the rest of them.

Diarabasin School.

My commute to work has views like this. That is the ocean.