Would you like to make a tax deductible donation to my future projects?

Hello Fellow Blog Readers:

To those of you who are interested, I will be setting up an account that will allow you to make tax deductible donations to the projects I will be working on my second year. I will be spending my first year working on education. Then in my second year, I will determine families that are in need of a project in order for them to better their health. Projects could include, an improved cook stove, latrine, cement floor, water storage system, or drainage system. Criteria for recipients of projects will also be based on families dedication to the educational health talks that I will be giving and how great their desire is to better their health. More details to come concerning cost break down as it becomes available.

I am giving you a heads up so that you can start putting money away for this now if you so desire, maybe you have something you can give up and instead of spending the money you can send it towards a good cause. I will be setting up a fund when the time gets closer to begin my projects.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Making Friends

So this week has been filled with blossoming friendships. First of all I have been getting closer to my host family which is exciting as I found that I really have a passion for connecting with people. As most of you know I live with two sisters one is 17 and the other 23 and the 23 year old has a 5 year old daughter. We have some cultural differences which were a bit of a challenge at first but are now becoming easier. The friendship that is more in the works is with my host brother, or rather one of the four brothers of the sisters I live with. He is 22 and works for his dad, making t-shirts and screen printing them. Once I moved down to the room on the first level they moved the business upstairs where I live. So he is around a whole lot more. At first he didn't talk to me very much and I wasn't sure how to take that. Did he like me? Was he intimidated by me? Or maybe he was just a little shy? I found out the other day that it was a little of him being shy and a little of being intimidated by me but now since we have broken through that things are going nicely. He apparently wasn't sure what to say to me and wasn't sure if I would want to talk to him. I was a bit unsure of the whole situation myself being in the machismo culture of Guatemala. I was told that platonic friendships don't really exist here. I found that to not be completely true. I really miss having guy friends and I am hoping this will help fill the gap.
I am also getting closer with the health center staff I work with. I got some candy in the mail this past week and there was so much of it. I felt like a kid on Halloween. I knew that if I kept it I would just eat it all myself so I opted to share it with my host family and a few other random people and also with the health center staff. My coworkers really enjoyed the candy and I think it helped them open up to me a little more. I have taken up running with some girls I work with. They stay at the health center during the week because they live too far away to travel everyday. I need the motivation of other people because honestly if it's up to me I usually fail. I had been walking before that but I needed to step it up a little bit.
So yeah, I guess I can say life is good right now. I really enjoying building relationships with people and getting to know who they really are and what drives them as a person. It's in the works!

Much love,
Kels
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