Apologies

Sorry ya´ll that I sort of fell off the face of the world. I am fine and well just busy busy. Also I thought that I posted this last week but it didn´t show up. Once again sorry Clumsy is my new nickname these days. Let´s see... I did have a dance performance I dressed up like I was jane from tarzan and performed a dance from the jungle and also a very pretty cumbia in the white and black outfit located at the right of the screen. I was not even nervous and everyone wonders where I got the skills since I am a white girl. I took the meds they made my legs better and then now they are back to ugly since I finished the meds. I am ok with it since it is not something more serious. Finally finished teaching English today super excited that I will have my mornings free to do other health related work. It was worth it because now all the kids know me and everyone thinks I am a professor too. I was visited by another volunteer that was having trouble in her site. We went to the river, practiced stilts, and she got a taste of my life here. Her opinion very hot, very busy, and extremely unique. So I am still trying to figure out if it is my fault or my site that my life is so strange. Went to a superbowl party with some other volunteers it was funny because I had no idea who was even in the superbowl. Finished with my interviews in the community and am now evaluating the results. I have also held two sessions on the prevention of diarrea and weighed young children to see if they are malnourished. Those that are suffering from malnutrition enter into this nutrition program so that they can recuperate. Last friday was my uncle´s birthday party where we danced a ton and then everyone ate a dish of my guinea pigs. I am working on getting that project rolling. The garden is officially in my name and I have reliable team working now small but effective. I think we are going to start over now that we know what works and what doesn´t. I have been enjoying my own radishes and cucumbers. Still waiting on the carrots, cabbage, beets, squash and tomatoes. Someday I will have sweet vegetarian plates of my own organic vegetables. Also we began selling the products which is super exciting. I will start a business here at least one before I leave. On valentine´s day I went for ceviche followed by dancing in my block party and later another birthday party. I felt anything but lonely on this day. Because here they celebrate it as the love day and the day of friendship. Though I did have a freak accident with balloons when I was trying to help decorate. I blew one up too much and it popped hard into my left eye. It started swelling and thought it might turn black I was covering it with a popsicle and trying to blow up another when it also popped into my other eye and hit my neck. By the end of it I looked like I got beat up by my husband. It was hilarious luckily the swelling went down before any terrible rumors could start. I have been world´s of clumsy lately. Also I experienced my second tremor. The first one woke me up at 3 am and it was small but I though maybe I was dreaming because my bed was shaking. But really the earth was quaking ha. The second one happened this past week and was stronger the whole house shook. I don´t expect there will actually be a earthquake where I live so no worries. It is officially rainy season which I throughly enjoy and had a lovely shower yesterday in the pouring down rain. The people here think I am very strange because I like to play in the rain. I got to travel a bit to another department and visit 2 museums about incas and then head to the beach for a few hours with 40 students from summer school. It made the pains of teaching totally worthwhile to share that experience with my kids. They are really quite pleasant when you are not having to try to keep them under control. It was really sweet to because all the moms were terrified to watch their kids leave to travel alone and I was entrusted with about 20 personally. I took it as a huge compliment. The sun and the sand really got me alive and kicking again. That was a mouthful of a story. I will try to do better next time so it is not so long.