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.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Anticipation

So update about last week: Apparently the devils come out with force on Tuesday so we opted not to leave the house after we got back from our day of camp. We ordered Dominoes pizza and had it delivered. I still can't believe we got pizza delivered, I mean I am in the Peace Corps for pete's sake! So I spent the rest of my week at camp and I was amazed at how tired I got for not doing much physical activity but I guess it was just from having to deal with those kids. They started to get to me by the last day. I don't think I could have done any more than 5 days with them. On Friday we finished up with camp and just had everybody in the morning instead of having the older kids in the afternoon and the younger ones in the morning. Santa Clause made an appearance and dance for the kids. I think they enjoyed it. We went out to Xela (pronounced Shela) which is the nearest big town to hit up the bar to celebrate the end of camp. I headed back to site Saturday to accomplish some things like laundry and grocery shopping. I hit up Chimal which is a bigger city near my site, about a 40 min ride away. There is a bigger grocery store there along with a mall and a food court with Taco Bell, Dominos, McDonalds and a few others. The bus ride there and back was a killer. Both times the buses were super full and on the way back the ayudante had the people standing in the isles crouch down as we passed the police. I was thinking that was pretty much pointless because those buses are always packed to the brim and the cops know it. I also helped my sitemate move to her new place just down the road Saturday evening. Sunday was resting up and hitting up the market for a few things...less than normal as I anticipate my trip home a week from today. The time can't move fast enough! I can't wait to see everyone and catch up :)

Monday, December 6, 2010

Making time fly

So this week I am out helping a fellow volunteer with her camp for the kids that are off from school until January. Today was the first day and it will run all week. In the mornings we had kindergarten through 3rd grade and in the afternoon 4-6th. We had them rotating through three activities including art, English and sports. It was fun and it's helping the time moved a little faster as I am waiting to come home for Christmas.

Another interesting experience of this week: This week Tuesday they are celebrating Dia del Diablo or something to that nature. It isn't really celebrated very heavily in many areas but where I happen to be this week, it is a popular event. It involves jovenes (teenagers of the male sort) that dress up in a devil outfit and walk through the streets in mobs. They like to bother people and have been known to get in your face and get paint on you. They also circled a two other female volunteers and apparently grabbed their butts. Tomorrow, which is the official day of this celebration I have been told that they will be dressed in only speedos with paint covering their bodies, being even more obnoxious. We are seriously considering not going out tomorrow, but we have a place up on a roof to go sit. The only problem is getting there and back and avoiding these obnoxious people. I shall update you as my experience with this evolves.