Damn i wish bluetooth can also connect of to the internet cause it really sucks to have to type on my phone.
Wow! Long time no write. Sorry, but school makes life pretty busy. Plus, there's been so many things going on. I've missed school for about a week now because we just had our 5 day reconnect conference. Peace Corps gets everyone together after 3 months in order to see how we're doing and for us to share our experiences. It was really great. They rented out a really nice hotel for us, and I mean NICE. Air conditioning the entire time; buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner; nice hot and cold showers; a refrigerator in the room; a nice comfortable bed. I felt like I'd left Mozambique and gone back to America for 4days. It was good to see people I hadn't seen since training, traded movies, our teaching and integration experiences, and just catch up. Another really cool thing was that the city in which we had our conference had a Lebanese restaurant and a hooka bar! It was so exciting to eat Asian foods and smoke hooka because I hadn't done that in ages and didn't even think it was possible to do in mozambique.
Other than that, though, it was kind of a stressful time for me. 2 days before I had 2 leave site, I'd caught this really bad fever. It was awful! My head ached so much that I couldn't even sleep. i would wake up in the middle of the might dripping in sweat at one point and them wake up in chills at another point. The fever had gotten over 101, and all my wounds that I'd had on my skin from an infection before started to puss up and get infected. On top of that, I had to worry about traveling, and I was so stressed out. (the river Buzi flooded, so the road was washed away. Even though it was already bad before, it was still passable by car. Now, a part of the bridge ya washed away so you had to get on the back of a bike for 3 km, wade through water at the part where the bridge was, and wait for a car on the other ride, if one even comes along. i had to plan another route out, and good thing my roommate was really helpful, and we'd found a back way.) the day I had to leave, I still had a fever in the morning but thank god it went away by the afternoon. So yea, during the conference, I couldn't drink with everybody cause my leg was so infected that it hurt to walk and alcohol seemed to make it worse. After the conference, I had to fly to another city to see a dermatologist, who took a biopsy of my skin, so there's the picture of my stitch. Hope it heals ok. Wouldn't want another infection. Anyway, so they put me on antibiotics and the wounds have stopped pussing and are starting to scar. I'm so happy. Please god, let me heal completely...
Anyway, so what's my life like in Buzi now that school has started? Before my leg got infected, I had woken up at 5 to log 2x a week, and damn, sunrise in Buzi is so fucking beautiful. The sky is blanketed with all kinds of colors that stretch as far as your eyes can see. Buzi is so flat that the sky seems bigger to of somehow. No cars, on buildings, a few houses, but mostly just me and the neverending land.
Since I teach in the afternoon, in the morning, my time is busy sweeping or cleaning the house, fetching water for up from our neighbor's faucet when it's running, or going to the market to buy done for up, lesson planning, grading, and cooking. Best time for market is around 10 when it's all set up and food is fresh, and since our fridge is not that good to store food, I usually have to make a trip every 3 days. My roommate Vanessa, black girl below, teaches in the morning, so I usually end up making lunch for up, so a lot of my time is spent cooking. Damn, I'm surprised at how resourceful I am with our limited ingredients here, but then sometime I also get tired of having 2 cook so much. Sometimes, you just want some east food, but it's impossible here. We can go out but it takes forever and costs yay more.
I do teach one class in the morning every Tuesday - thurs. After lunch, I usually have 5 or 6 classes of 45 minutes back to back, and then I go home, take a bath, eat dinner or in have a drink with Vanessa( Cokes on good days and beer on shitty days when we just want to vent). Let me tell you, it's a real adrenaline push for of sometimes to in back to back with classes. Since it's the same lesson, I'd get on this high and if the lesson is good or I know how to improve it, it's awesome that I get to try and try again for 5 times ofcourse that can also backfire with crappy lessons. Thursday nights we have a 30 minute radio program where we teach our city to speak English. That's pretty fun since I get to DJ. No classes on Fridays! Woot! i usually get chores done or grading in the mornings, but Friday afternoons are taken up by journalism club. Friday nights we in to the local car or restaurant for beers or just watch a movie at good if we're too lazy. No excessive drinking tho cause everyone in our town knows us, so it looks really bad if people see up wasted. Gossip is huge here.
So that's weekdays. Weekends, Saturday mornings from 9 - 12 we have English Club, which is like an extra lesson for students to practice and get tutored. After, we eat lunch and them usually bum around or hang out. That seems kinda rare tho cause we usually have lesson planning or grading to do. If we didn't, we're probably in the city buying food or other necessities not available at site or partying with other central volunteers. When we go to the city, we definitely party harder cause no one there knows us, but I think I've only gotten that wasted like 3 times since I've been here. It's such a pain to travel.well it feels like i've written too much so i'll save it for later.
