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I don´t really update that often (obviously) and I realized that it´s nothing here seems that interesting to me any more. I can´t think of anything exceptionally exciting that´s happened here to update about. Today, for example, I woke up, got ready, and ate breakfast. The morning excitement was that there were ants toasted into the bread of my sandwich. The grossness is that I was hungry, so I just scraped them off and ate it. I didn´t want to embarrass my host mom, nor did I really feel like having a conversation with here, so I just didn´t worry too much about it. Then, as every day, I went by Glenn´s house and waited for him to finish breakfast, and we went to Entrena (the training center). I bitched about my host mom the whole way, and he bitched about other things. Sometimes you just have to bitch. So this morning I gave my Spanish presentation. It really represented all 3 hours that I had put into it. I don´t think they´ll really fail me though if I at least did it, and my report was pretty good (I think), so I don´t really care. Then we had lunch. For the first time in weeks I actually ate lunch. I had quit eating it because my doña insists that I eat dinner, and a lot of it. So if I don´t eat lunch, then I can eat twice as much at dinner, and she bitches slightly less. So it was really a stupid idea of me to eat lunch. And all I really wanted were some fried green plantains, and they didn´t even have any. So today we had training sessions on diet maintenance in the campo, and sexual assault and HIVand AIDS. I´m sure any current and former PC people remember that incredibly uplifting getting-AIDS-in-the-PC video. Hmmm, then I hung out at Entrena for about 10 minutes and realized that I didn´t really feel like hanging out with the same people I´d just seen for 9 hours. So I went home hoping that I would arrive in time to catch my doña before she started cooking. No such luck. So I bathed and then she insisted that I eat dinner (un chin chin = a tiny bit =half a chicken, potatoes, carrots, rice, and beans, and grapefruit juice and water = my doña is obnoxious). So I shoved the food down my throat and came over to the internet cafe. It was full, so I took a nap for 45 minutes and came back, and here I am! Woo hoo!
Hmmm, what else. The training sessions have been slightly less boring this week. Less on PC philosophy and geographic regions of the DR and more hands on stuff. Yesterday we had a self-defense session that was kind of boring until out of the blue Glenn barrelled over and picked me up and threw me on the ground. Apparently I didn´t learn much self-defense, because all I could do was laugh. And I did manage to hurt one of the guys who attacked me. I guess those months of Aikido paid off... I managed to hurt a friend! Woo hoo! Anyway, hopefully we won´t need it, but an interesting little fact we learned is that PCVs in the DR report more harrassment than in any other PC country in the world. It´s definitely not hard to believe.
Hmmm, what else. We are leaving for the campo (el Callejón de Cabrera) on Monday morning, and I´ll be there for 6 weeks. In some ways I´m looking forward to it, but in some ways I´m not. Number one, I´ll be very limited on communication. They don´t even have landlines there. But hopefully we should get into Cabrera or Nagua once every week or two, so I shouldn´t be TOO out of touch.
All right, that´s it for now! I love you all!
Hmmm, what else. The training sessions have been slightly less boring this week. Less on PC philosophy and geographic regions of the DR and more hands on stuff. Yesterday we had a self-defense session that was kind of boring until out of the blue Glenn barrelled over and picked me up and threw me on the ground. Apparently I didn´t learn much self-defense, because all I could do was laugh. And I did manage to hurt one of the guys who attacked me. I guess those months of Aikido paid off... I managed to hurt a friend! Woo hoo! Anyway, hopefully we won´t need it, but an interesting little fact we learned is that PCVs in the DR report more harrassment than in any other PC country in the world. It´s definitely not hard to believe.
Hmmm, what else. We are leaving for the campo (el Callejón de Cabrera) on Monday morning, and I´ll be there for 6 weeks. In some ways I´m looking forward to it, but in some ways I´m not. Number one, I´ll be very limited on communication. They don´t even have landlines there. But hopefully we should get into Cabrera or Nagua once every week or two, so I shouldn´t be TOO out of touch.
All right, that´s it for now! I love you all!