Sorry for not posting anything in so long. Things have kind of just been coasting lately. My Saturday kids' class is falling apart. I've hit some kind of slump where I don't feel like I'm really DOING anything, also thinking that I am approaching my one year of service mark and wondering what I am going to have to SOLIDLY show for it. But things are good.
Thursday evening a rock crashed through the plastic roof sheet in my roof (they are all metal, except for one) and there is a huge hole, which was supposed to get fixed yesterday, and then today, but it hasn't happened yet. It's okay though, it's not that bad, it's in a corner so nothing is really getting wet. I just had to move my table-constructed-out-of-suitcases-covered-with-a-bedsheet that I used as a bookshelf for all my Peace Corps books. And last weekend my sink was leaking but that is fixed except for a tiny drip that I have given up on trying to fix.
I got a haircut today after....almost nine and a half months. It was nice.
More interesting vegetables have been showing up in the market lately! Instead of just different types of squash (pipiyan, ayote, chayote), taro, potatoes, yucca, tomatoes and cabbage. I have found eggplant, green beans, and broccoli. Also my host mom, and a family that shares a fence with my school in Dolores, both have abundant spinach plants that I steal spinach from. Actually my host mom has a bunch of stuff. I also steal oregano and basil from her yard. And lemons. And chiles. Would you be interested in seeing pictures of the fruits and veggies that are available here? There are some delicious fruits that I had never seen before I came here.
The latest TEFL trainees got to Carazo yesterday! There are none in Dolores though since I'm already working with the English teachers here, and they would have no one to practice with. Since I'm right here, they're gonna be observing a lot of my classes I'm sure, and I'm sure I'm gonna be asked to give them lectures and stuff because I'm so close. I am already signed up for one, "Your First Day of School". Should be good.
My camera is acting up, I think the battery is starting to fall apart. It'll suddenly turn off and stuff or say there is no charge left even right after I've finished charging it. Too bad I don't know anyone (yet) who knows how to fix cameras. Right when I started to take more interest in taking pictures. Oh well.
I'm fantasizing about my trip home in November. I'm going to buy my ticket on Wednesday, after I confirm details with one of my bosses about my vacation days. I will most likely be getting to LA in the afternoon December 9th, and leaving late at night on the 28th. I'm fantasizing about things like waxing my arms and legs, getting a legit facial, eating good food, eating taco bell, lying on a couch, drinking wine and champagne, seeing all of my friends and family, going to Disneyland, going to the movies multiple times, Trader Joe's...and many many other things.
I have had a weekend FULL of free time, and it has been just what I needed to see that I really don't enjoy SO much free time =).
Love,
Neha
