Wow, has it been nearly 2 months since I last wrote? I´ve been travelling a lot with rancho ebenezer brigades, peace corps trainings, and now helping out training the new group of volunteers.
My group celebrated 1 year in country the first of the month and its hard to believe. With the new group here and training underway, it feels like yesterday that I was in their shoes, but also so long ago. And all I can say, is thank god I´m not there anymore. Although time goes by faster now its still slow and at times I feel like I´ve done all I came here for and am ready to go home. But most of the time, it just feels like I still have sooo much left to accomplish and with the SLOW movement of work here, so little time to accomplish it all. Did I mention how slow it is to get anything accomplished here? Hard to get projects accomplished when people dont show up for meetings that have taken a week to prepare for. And can I say how much spanish I still have yet to learn?
Seems like life here has been filled with baking and cooking. In fact, cheers to Elizabeth´s mom, whom I met today in Casa Viejas where we celebrated her arrival with a goat and a day of baking all sorts of goodies. She seemed to fit right in and loved all of Nicaragua.
I´ve been getting accustomed to my house and trying to make it more homey. Since fumigating last week, the lack of cockroaches has really helped me feel more at home. Im pretty much always back at my host families house anyways, back to eating frijoles, arroz, and tortilla, which I love, and baking lots.
Have started some more family gardens and done some animal management training, with chicken vaccinations to come. Also doing some more nutrition training and demonstrations and upkeeping the school garden and english classes.
The rest of this month is taken up with medical visits, tech training of the new volunteers (supposedly I´m the animal expert and am scheduled to give all the animal mgt charlas), and a trip to Leon and the beach with the girls.
Thats all folks. Take care.
Oh did I mention that I´m now a ripe old age of 30!!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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