Thanksgiving was Awesome! I loved spending some quality time with the girls... even though part of it involved planning for saying goodbye to one of my closest friends in Peace Corps... I'm going to miss your face Sabine... and our talks... and everything about you in general.
Sabine and I had a discussion about our perfect months we did earlier in the year... I think we both agreed they we ambitious, yet the simple setting goals made it easier to accomplish things that are often set aside, and build better habits. Out of my perfect months I have started the habit of making awesome smoothies for breakfast everyday, running on the reg, I studied more for that GRE, and in general writing and planning personal goals. However I did not stick to my plan completely (life gets in the way). So here's to making goals and finishing out 2013 in the DR with a bang. From the 1-12 of December I've made some personal goals to be accomplished in my site. From the 12-18 of December I will have the lovely Alana with me, and one should not plan personal goals when they are planning on seeing their best friends for the first time in 2 years! My goal from that time will be to relax and let loose a little.
So here are the goals for 1-12:
-Finally conquer GRE studying... I planned badly last time and I guess it means I need to study more.
- Plan party for my book club
-Plan/possibly do another mural
-Create collage with photos for Women's Association
-Run! everyday
-Blog! everyday... food journal... Maybe I should include photos?
-Write out more concretely the next two years of my life that I planned out last week... (we'll see)
-Yoga/exercise other than running
-Swim twice a week (why not... ?I live next to the ocean)
-Dance party at my house every night...
-Read another book (Simona if I read this book that you told me to read, and you don't, than our private book club is off!... get on that!)
On a different note, it has come to my attention that I might be broke, even in PC terms (We all know I've been broke for the past two years...) So I've decided to save some money for my visit with Alana, who will be coming on the 12th by controlling my diet a little. I know volunteers often go with less than $4 a day on food, hell half the time I do too, but not consistently. My goal for the next week is to not spend more than $4 a day (completely possible) but focus on spending $2.5 a day ($100 RD...maybe possible). I've done the math... kind of... and this is the break down as it stands now. in a week I will spend $200 RD on Breakfast (Papaya Smoothies and Coffee). That leaves $71 RD or $1.79 US to spend on lunch and dinner. Staples will include onions, tomato, cucumber, lettuces/cabbage, eggs, bananas, plantains, and milk. I will be cheating slightly by using pre-owned whole grain pasta and noodles.
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