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shoot, i dont know when the last time i posted to livejournal was. kinda gets to be that the longer you go without posting the harder it is to post bc you dont know where to begin. but i have few minutes so...
VT.
Lots of love to everyone back in blacksburg. Was thinking about you guys. Believe me, it was both easier and harder being away when it all happened. My best wishes as you try to put things back together and move on.
Me.
work and play, work and play. kind of more the later for the past month or so. things have just been busy busy with social events, peace corps events, easter weeek (no one in guatemala works that week), and other such fun stuff. But may is work month! Even though next week is the town fair, so there wont be any work that week. But I am putting together some meetings, workshops, surveys, etc with my pet project (microcredit) that should finally come to fruition this month. That will open up more doors too, hopefully. Also soon i start K'iche lessones (that being the mayan dialect spoken around here) which should be fun, if frustrating at times (language aquisition: not my forte). Most of my issues here revolve around the fact that my counterpart doesnt really work with me, he just kind of lets me kick around for 90% of the time without direction. This could be good, but I just need to establish my role and my obligations so that I can go out and do my own thing without feeling like I am blowing off my organization. But given that he is hardly ever around, its been hard to have that conversation (granted it would be hard regardless). But its my goal for this week, so we shall see.
But am havin a blast whenever I can put work stuff out of my mind. my Peace Corps crew is great. Plus its fun to meet locals wherever we go, plus the odd traveler from the states or europe.
Travel.
well, been all over guatemala now, though mostly the western highlands, and not yet to Tikal. June we are going to chiapas (subcomandante brendan?, what?) for a week to visit EZLN territory. Then in july I am coming back to the states. I hadnt planned to return during my 2 yrs, but my cousin is getting married and I really dont want to miss it. So july 17-26 i will be stateside.
Ok. time for lunch. i do read LJ slightly more than I write, so I have a faint understanding of whats going on in the LJ universe. Hope all are well.
VT.
Lots of love to everyone back in blacksburg. Was thinking about you guys. Believe me, it was both easier and harder being away when it all happened. My best wishes as you try to put things back together and move on.
Me.
work and play, work and play. kind of more the later for the past month or so. things have just been busy busy with social events, peace corps events, easter weeek (no one in guatemala works that week), and other such fun stuff. But may is work month! Even though next week is the town fair, so there wont be any work that week. But I am putting together some meetings, workshops, surveys, etc with my pet project (microcredit) that should finally come to fruition this month. That will open up more doors too, hopefully. Also soon i start K'iche lessones (that being the mayan dialect spoken around here) which should be fun, if frustrating at times (language aquisition: not my forte). Most of my issues here revolve around the fact that my counterpart doesnt really work with me, he just kind of lets me kick around for 90% of the time without direction. This could be good, but I just need to establish my role and my obligations so that I can go out and do my own thing without feeling like I am blowing off my organization. But given that he is hardly ever around, its been hard to have that conversation (granted it would be hard regardless). But its my goal for this week, so we shall see.
But am havin a blast whenever I can put work stuff out of my mind. my Peace Corps crew is great. Plus its fun to meet locals wherever we go, plus the odd traveler from the states or europe.
Travel.
well, been all over guatemala now, though mostly the western highlands, and not yet to Tikal. June we are going to chiapas (subcomandante brendan?, what?) for a week to visit EZLN territory. Then in july I am coming back to the states. I hadnt planned to return during my 2 yrs, but my cousin is getting married and I really dont want to miss it. So july 17-26 i will be stateside.
Ok. time for lunch. i do read LJ slightly more than I write, so I have a faint understanding of whats going on in the LJ universe. Hope all are well.