FBT

So during the past couple weeks the fellow business trainees and I have been preparing for our Field based training this upcoming week. This will be our sixth week of training and we get to go to different sites around Peru and teach a class about some business principles and entrepreneurship. My group and I are headed to Cajamarca which is a department in the North of Peru. Its has a little bit of a higher altitude so it is considered to be a sierra part. My group consists of me and three others and we will have a class of about 25 peruvians that are attending an academy in the town. The overall idea is to teach them the basics of opening up a business, all in Spanish, so Im a little nervous but definetly excited for the opportunity.

So we leave this Saturday and get to take a 16 hour overnight bus ride to the capital city of the department. There we get to spend the night in a hotel and get a decent bed and hot water, which I might be the most excited about. On monday were going to travel to the actual town of San Marcos where we will be doing the teaching. We then have three days to prepare our students on how to open up a business of their own and all of the various components that should go into it from marketing to accounting you name it. On thursday we get to give them a small loan from the pc and then on Friday they get to do their busienss idea (usually selling food or something informal) and the one who earns the highest profit out of all the groups will be crowned the winner. There will be about 12 groups of 5 in total so it should be pretty fun to see what they all come up with.

We teach in the afternoon so in the morning we should have a little free time to relax and prepare any last minute materials we might need to. Ive heard great things about the city and heard that some parts are incredibly beautiful and I think were gonna get the chance to hike around for a little bit. The last night were probably gonna have a little get together and then were off again on Saturday for another overnight ride. Ill be sure to update after next week to write about how it went.