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Hi everyone! Long time no see! Well, maybe not, but I don't remember when the last time I updated was, and I don't feel like checking.
Things in my site are slowly but surely getting better and better. I have made a couple of real friends and so now I have people I can hang out with and talk about nothing and not feel like I'm the token American with. This makes me VERY excited.
I've been at my site for about 3 weeks now. That leaves 2 months and one week before I can move out of my host family's house and into my own house. My project partner keeps picking out different houses that will someday be mine. I think we're on the 4th now. If she doesn't change her mind again, then I will be in a freakin awesome cement block house that's pink and blue. I haven't seen the inside yet, but it appears to be a standard 2 bedroom house. It might even have a room to bathe inside, though i'm not sure about the toilet vs. letrine situation. It has a yard and a big awning thing in the back covered with palm leaves where you can sit in the shade. It also might have a place for a tinaco (a big plastic barrel that you put on the roof to collect rainwater so that when there's no water, you can still bathe and stuff) (that is, if I can afford a tinaco); that is very exciting given that my community seems to get water like 1-2 hours a day, if that, and if you don't catch it then and collect it in as many buckets as you can find, you're screwed (and dirty).
I started doing interviews for my community diagnostic this week. I did 30 in 2 days! This was very exciting for me, although the interviews themselves were pretty boring. I have to do 80 now in Belloso; I'm going to start them this week, and my goal is to do 10 a day to get them over with. I will probably only be able to work a couple of days before people start getting really into Christmas and I won't be able to accomplish anything. But I have plenty of time in January, so I'm not too worried about it.
I was thinking about it the other day, and Becky, Katie, Kate, Avital, and any other West GA readership I might have--we've known each other for almost 7 years now. 7 freakin years. That's a long time!!! And I still love you guys!!! Hee hee. It's weird to think though. And when I come back, we'll have known each other for 9 years. That's almost a decade! Sheesh!
I'm slowly but surely formulating my next crazy plan for when I am done with the PC. I'm thinking nursing school. I talked to Michael about it this morning, but Katie, you were in the shower, and though I'm sure he's told you, here's what I'm thinking now. West GA has what is apparently a pretty good nursing school. According to Katie via Michael, college credits don't expire. So I'm thinking I might look at West GA for nursing school when I come back. My logic is this: there are already some people there that I know and love and miss a lot, it's more affordable than some bigger schools, it has a good program, they seem to have a variety of scholarships available, and theoritically they will more willingly accept my core credits because, damnit, I got them there in the first place! How does that sound? So all of you college-y people out there, investigate for me--is it true? Do college credits really never expire? And is it different for major-specific classes and core classes? I need your expertise and your virtually unlimited internet time here! Help!
Ok, that's that for now! I miss you guys!
Things in my site are slowly but surely getting better and better. I have made a couple of real friends and so now I have people I can hang out with and talk about nothing and not feel like I'm the token American with. This makes me VERY excited.
I've been at my site for about 3 weeks now. That leaves 2 months and one week before I can move out of my host family's house and into my own house. My project partner keeps picking out different houses that will someday be mine. I think we're on the 4th now. If she doesn't change her mind again, then I will be in a freakin awesome cement block house that's pink and blue. I haven't seen the inside yet, but it appears to be a standard 2 bedroom house. It might even have a room to bathe inside, though i'm not sure about the toilet vs. letrine situation. It has a yard and a big awning thing in the back covered with palm leaves where you can sit in the shade. It also might have a place for a tinaco (a big plastic barrel that you put on the roof to collect rainwater so that when there's no water, you can still bathe and stuff) (that is, if I can afford a tinaco); that is very exciting given that my community seems to get water like 1-2 hours a day, if that, and if you don't catch it then and collect it in as many buckets as you can find, you're screwed (and dirty).
I started doing interviews for my community diagnostic this week. I did 30 in 2 days! This was very exciting for me, although the interviews themselves were pretty boring. I have to do 80 now in Belloso; I'm going to start them this week, and my goal is to do 10 a day to get them over with. I will probably only be able to work a couple of days before people start getting really into Christmas and I won't be able to accomplish anything. But I have plenty of time in January, so I'm not too worried about it.
I was thinking about it the other day, and Becky, Katie, Kate, Avital, and any other West GA readership I might have--we've known each other for almost 7 years now. 7 freakin years. That's a long time!!! And I still love you guys!!! Hee hee. It's weird to think though. And when I come back, we'll have known each other for 9 years. That's almost a decade! Sheesh!
I'm slowly but surely formulating my next crazy plan for when I am done with the PC. I'm thinking nursing school. I talked to Michael about it this morning, but Katie, you were in the shower, and though I'm sure he's told you, here's what I'm thinking now. West GA has what is apparently a pretty good nursing school. According to Katie via Michael, college credits don't expire. So I'm thinking I might look at West GA for nursing school when I come back. My logic is this: there are already some people there that I know and love and miss a lot, it's more affordable than some bigger schools, it has a good program, they seem to have a variety of scholarships available, and theoritically they will more willingly accept my core credits because, damnit, I got them there in the first place! How does that sound? So all of you college-y people out there, investigate for me--is it true? Do college credits really never expire? And is it different for major-specific classes and core classes? I need your expertise and your virtually unlimited internet time here! Help!
Ok, that's that for now! I miss you guys!