Abbreviations and Acronyms

Here’s another list I think is helpful when reading my entries…and would have been more helpful several months ago, during training. Sorry about that. But maybe this list of my common acronyms and abbreviations here will clear some things up.

• AdminSep – Administrative Separation, a volunteer is being forced to leave because he did something wrong
• Bus – Business, a project that trains in the other group
• CD – Country Director, ours is actually about to change
• COS – Close of Service, this means a volunteer is finished with their service or had extenuating circumstances so will be getting this status even if they didn’t technically finish
• ET – Early Terminate, this means a volunteer is quitting
• H17 – Honduras 17 (my training group, other training groups have other numbers)
• HIV – Health project group, which I think is officially called Health/HIV, trains with other group
• Hondu – Honduras
• MD – Municipal Development, another project that I trained with
• MedSep – Medically Separated, a volunteer has to leave because of a medical issue
• PAM – Protected Areas Management, another project that I trained with
• PC – Peace Corps
• PCH – Peace Corps Honduras
• PCMO – Peace Corps Medical Officer, our doctors and nurses we see
• PCT – Peace Corps Trainee
• PCV – Peace Corps Volunteer
• PM – Project Manager, our higher-up supervisor that we don’t see very often during training
• PTO – Program and Training Officer, a really cool guy that’s actuating as Country Director now
• PTS – Project Training Specialist, our supervisor that basically runs our technical training
• Santa Rosa – there are a million Santa Rosas in Honduras (they are NOT creative with names here), but I will use this to refer to Santa Rosa de Copan, a big city about an hour away from me
• RPCV – Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
• SSO – Safety and Security Officer, our guy for all things related to safety and security
• Teguc – Tegucigalpa (some people write as Tegus or Teguz)
• Valle – short for Valle de Angeles, a cute, tourist town near where we stayed in training
• Wat/San – Water/Sanitation, project that trains in the other project
• YD – Youth Development, my project

Again, sorry this would have been way more helpful back during training! It is also linked to on the sidebar.