THREE MONTHS AT SITE

The three month mark is approaching…I have now been in site as long as in training and possibly feel that I have achieved less then I felt each day in training. At least then I had a consistent schedule and could say, `Today, I went to class and learned fifty new words---` Fifty is a bit strong but you got the idea. No…I shouldn’t be that down, I have been doing some stuff just it’s been less then I would wish. My comité is a bit unorganized and has difficulty setting up meetings and now the school year has started so half of the guys work during the week now so limits my abilities to the weekends…that leaves a long stretch of the week days to fill.

I guess, I am most proud of the fact that I now am working with a women’s comité in another community. There is another volunteer that lives literally 8 km away by field in a community called Rio Negro, (you can find it on Google Earth around a place called `Estancia Kennedy`) but it is a huge hassle getting there. Anyway, the women are really interested in working bees and I have already been there twice and made a batea, bee box, and tried to do some trasiegos…they didn’t work out but nice try. It also involved one trip where I woke up at 3.30 in the morning and arrived my 8 km away at 9…this involved about 50 km of bus rides…that was not a good day. I am going back again and it looks like I will be working there off and on for awhile.

Last notes of this post, I am still looking for a house…its decidedly difficult apparently to find a house here, no idea why – update on the cute nephew he has left for school in Asuncion but his sister visiting kept up the tradition of indignantly saying that bees make bad boyfriends because they don’t know how to kiss – and thanks for the birthday wishes, mostly via facebook…they made me feel infinity better though not on my birthday, my host family forgot my birthday, a thing I found hard to understand as it was a day after my host dad´s…I will be celebrating it again this week in Asuncion, we have training and I think maybe back in the states…lets plan it for a ´Marcy´s 23rd and 24th B-day Bash and oh She´s Back in the States Party!

Miss you all! Marcy

PS The time zones are going to make sense again soon when y´all jump forward and we go back…yes PY will be the same as the East Coast…

And thank my family for being good sports and mailing all the letters I write in bulk now…and who ever else received a random two in one affair…