Spent the morning vacciating my guinea pigs and then learning how to cook cows blood. There is a really great recipe for preventing anemia by tricking people into thinking that it is choclate. I kid you not choclate blood excellent combination. Then I got real sick again that day unrelated to the blood thing. I am not sure exactly what happened but lord knows that what comes out that fast has no intention of staying very long. So anywho I slept it off and am feeling quite better. Always fun calling my mom and having her diagnose me with random and obscure disease. Love you mom perhaps someday you will be right. Then today had to get back to work quite quickly. Spent the morning doing nutritional consults with a bunch of moms in the hopes of preventing malnutrion in at risk children and recovering the already malnourished. Had a training in the afternoon with my healthy households moms and the nurse about parasites. I do not know whether it should be to my happiness or dismay that the majority of my participants told me that their children are malnourished or have parasites. I guess this is what bringing awareness is all about. They seem to be learning the information I can only hope they are using it. I have heard some stories that they tell me they were going to do one thing but since I told them do try something new they tried it and it worked. I think I might be suceeding in changing their minds and then perhaps their health and they are empowred to decide and change their own lives. So I am really busy I am evaluating health promoters right now and training them on their weaknesses. I finally finished teaching sex ed which is a relief of my time and hopefully they understand what happens if they have sex. Because I saw another 17 year old scared, unprepared, and giving birth to a 2 lb infant which is truly heartbreaking on so many levels. I just wish they would understand the consequences of their actions. Also last week we had another parent school event. It was about domestic violence it involved about 35 teachers, 4 schools, and 350 parents. It is a pain in my ass project that I want nothing to do with but the expectation was set by the previous volunteer so I have to at least this year. Next year I am leaving it to swim or float. But no longer will it be my headache, though it is teaching me how to be more computer savvy. I made a sweet trifold pamphlet for the first time. Ha go to the third world to get better at computer skills when will my life stop being an oxymoron.
So what is up with everyone getting engaged or thinking about getting engaged. If I had any inkling that it was something I was looknig to do in the near future I would be having an anxiety attack. But congrats to all those happy couples. I think I will stick it solo until I figure out all my lifes plans and get to live out my dreams. Before I was thinking about the world food program but not I am thinking about this NGO named GAIN which works on preventing and treating malnutrition in India. Either way I do feel like I found my career. I know I could do so much in nutrition here, so much more than I could in the states. Nothing is certain in the future but I see myself in this line of work for probably the next 15 years if I do not burn myself in the next 2 years. There is just so much to do and see and teach and learn. By the way just caught a kid watching porn in the cabina next to me super awkard. giggles. Last friday there was a beauty pagent in the high school. As an event during the day they had two candidates box. Afterwards I got to box with one of the guys who organized it. He told me I hit hard and it was a ligit fight except for I lost. I will be training so that I can bring down male superacy. Then that night I judged the beauty pagent. It was all very interesting and unexpected. I celebrated my one yera in country the other day I got myself a facial, leg wax, and pedicure. It took me feeling very sorry for the girl cleaning my feet to realize just how far I had let myself go. It wsa the first pedicure I had in over a year in my defense. Ah well its not all beauty and glam. Loves
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