Diversity Charla

Here are some photos of a trip to the North Coast that was for business and I swear had nothing to do with that gorgeous beach in the background of the first photo.

Here's part of the group. There were a lot of us!

The one with that beautiful smile is my friend Vinita

Here's me doing my thing. So I want to explain what I was talking about real quick because it's actually pretty funny.

The class starts with all of us filing in and sitting down. None of us speak a word except for the one person they already know, our host, so that the kids don't know where we're from. There's about 15 of us and we all have a piece of paper in front of us. The instructions to the kids is to come to the front and mark our pieces of paper with an X if they think we're from the US. Well, after all 40 some kids got done I only had 5 X's. I'm usually the one that gets an X from all the kids. I think I got saved by the blond haired girl sitting was sitting on my left, who isn't even in Peace Corps. Anyways, my job is the best because I get to tell the kids that we are all from the US. It's not uncommon to receive loud gasps of disbelief.

I assume this was taken while I was talking to the kids since my seat is the open one. I'm not sure whether they all look astonished because I said some thing wrong in Spanish or they're just really attentive.