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2009-12-03 From Bob's Brasilia Diary: Wow, the sun is out for the first time since I arrived here on Tuesday, December, 1st after a 33 hour trip from where I live in Ferndale, WA. It's rainy season in Brasilia. During the rainy season in Santarem, it might pour down rain and then the sun will normally come out. However, here, it has been overcast and rainy for the past day and a half. I'm not complaining though. At least it's a comfortable temperature (it feels like the low 80's) and I can work in shorts and barefoot. I'm in the room pretty much all day and night anyways, working on the computer while Angela is at work, and then meeting with her evenings and on weekends. I'm in Brasilia for three weeks to work on the "guts" of the Handbook for the cCLEAR pilot, with Angela Viehmayer, our former Field Manager and main architect of much of the program's educational methodology. Although, the current issue is that most of the methodology is still in her head. By the time I leave on the 20th, Angela and I hope to finish a solid draft of the "How the project was implemented" section, including: how we prepared the communities, selected participants, helped participants select projects, learned about the participant's needs, created activities that would guide participants to learn and practice the particular skills they were lacking and the mentorship process. While here, we'll also work on another activity for the participants of the cCLEAR program. The activity is to coach participants to set up a stall near their boat to sell products they make. This will be important in it's own right and will also function as another way for Angela to transfer her knowledge to me, and to share this with everyone else. Over the next couple of weeks, I will try to update everyone on our progress, as well as share my perceptions of life in the Brazilian capitol. Abracos a todos
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