5 Months Later

Wow time has flown, by the end of next week I will have been in country for a total of 5 months, at site for 3, and teaching for almost 2 months. Things have started to settle down, with the teaching and slowly and surely class is getting better. Of course, there are the tough days where I just want to scream at the kids for lack of listening and other days we have a fun time, such as this past Tuesday when I had them come and say “Trick or Treat” in exchange for a lollipop. Otherwise the village life is moving along, I have my routinely activities I do daily, such as fetch water, cook, and visit the village and some friends in the village. I even have become to start planning a project for library as one of my two (hopefully) secondary projects I am going to do during my time here. On the days, I am not teaching I normally hang out in the village, do some work at home, or go and visit another volunteer either at their site or we take a beach day. Without a doubt there have been struggles, especially last week when I was sick at home and for some reason everyone decided to come and visit me that day, but in the end it all worked out and they understood that I was not in the mood to talk with people. But even with the struggles things still are going and for every struggle something good happens and brings the mood right back up.