Meeting

I just had a meeting with Eveline, the Dutch girl who is the director here.

I had lunch before with Benoit and I told him that I felt like saying that I have been unsatisfied with Maximo Nivel. I have had, all my life, difficulties with authorities, cause I always have the feeling that they have more power. When I was a teenager, that resulted in rude behaviour towards teachers. Later, I decided not to say anything at all when I disagreed because I discovered that they always have good excuses. But now, I decided to just say it. :)

I have been unsatisfied with the fact that they found me a practical placement the first week with 3 hours of travelling and all alone, up in the mountains. I think you can already think by yourself that that is not OK.

I noticed that other host families do a lot of activities with the volunteers (going out for dinner, playing cards) and my family is really sweet, but they do not do anything. Also, Amanda gets free water all day and I have to buy my own bottles. Benoit gets invited to see football matches. There are just big differences. Sometimes I get dry bread for breakfast with a juice. Not really nice.
So far, I haven't said anything because my family is so sweet and every day they ask how my day was.

Also, I have the feeling that it is corrupted. I told her that, cause I think they should know. I told her the stories I heard about the donations, that things dissapear. Also that the families only get 9 soles a day.
She told me that that is not true and she will send me a document.

Besides that, I have met 2 maybe 3 people within the organisation that I like and I was expecting more. I had a great experience, improved my Spanish and learn about the hospitals here. But I definitely did not make friends for life, by far.

Because I didn't met a lot of people, I went every weekend to make trips. That was great and during those weekends, I met a lot of people. I enjoyed that a lot. But the reason why I did this, was also because there were no volunteers in Cusco to go out with. I think it is maximo nivels responsibility to take care of that.

My mentor reacted quite offended, especially about the corruption part and I think I am one of the first persons who says her opinion. Even though I heard a lot of people that were unsatisfied.

It was a difficult conversation, but I am proud I said it.Læs mere