Sunday, February 3, 2013

Things I missed in Peace Corps

Ok so I know that it's super early to start making this list.... considering I have another 14 months or so in country... but I love my list and I want a distraction from my real life.  So here's a list of food I want to eat and things I want to do (mostly food):

1-I want lots of breakfast food!  waffles with whip cream, maybe strawberry sauce and bananas..whole wheat banana and chocolate chip pancakes, with whip cream.... and an omelet with mushrooms, and veggies galore and hot sauce.  I will wash all this down with coffee, but it'll probably make me want dominican coffee again.
2- Popcorn ;) this will be necessary I'm sure
3-Go to a movie... maybe the next star trek... but I'll probably have to rent that cause it will be out of theaters by the time I get home.
4- I want Thai food with feiven and kim
5- I want spicy pho, sushi, indian, and all other asian foods that I don't get to have here
6-Montclair chicken salad
7-Happy hour margaritas with mom
8-Jessica, you and I are going to finish that bike trail-I'm probably going to have to fix my bike up for that... or maybe buy a new one with my readjustment allowance (road bike :)
9-Take a hot shower
10-Go out with my friends and stay in with my family :)

Friday, February 1, 2013

Sprinting

It's rained all week... and I love it!  I missed having rainy days and I hope it stays like this for months.  

This month I've been running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off trying to prepare my women to apply for a grant... that I'm not sure we're ready for... but at least in the process of preparing we will be getting ready and they are making process in deciding what they really want to do.  I've also been working on getting a response water volunteer for the town across the river... :) which I think might actually happen now!

On a more personal level this month I got to go kayaking in a mangrove that let out into the ocean. Which was pretty sweet and next time I have good internet I'll load the photos. Also Archer is getting huge... I'm not sure how I'm going to bring him home, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to at this point cause I know he thinks I'm his mommy... He drives me crazy though... so far this week he has managed to bring about 5 bones into my house... the most interesting/ nasty of which was either the jaw of a horse or cow (the only large mammals that live in this county). Today was irritating though cause he brought home a dirty diaper and while I was distracted by two of my youth group girls he spread it around my house... I had to ask the girls to leave so I could collect myself enough to clean it up not go crazy... 

Also I have seen two squirrels in this country and that just cracks me up cause squirrels are only here to my understanding because dominican's think they're cute as pets... but they're so crazy that they have to let them go.