After having these past two weeks kind of kick me in the butt, I'm more than ready to bounce back. Sorry if that last post sounded like I was on the verge of quitting or something...some of you emailed me asked if everything was ok and to keep my chin up. Thank you for those notes and emails of encouragement!
Yesterday marked the end of these two hard weeks when I was surprised with not one, but two packages at the post office! A huge THANK YOU goes out to Jan and Rosine!!! Opening the boxes made me so happy and I am so lucky to have people at home who love me so much.
After getting the boxes I headed over to the Somoto Oratorio to talk to someone about me living at the volunteer house in Somoto, since I haven't found a place yet. I was again elated to receive good news that they would love for me to occupy one of the rooms and if they move houses I am more than welcome to move with them. I will be living with another Fabretto volunteer named Mike and a couple Nicas that come in and out during the week. It's great because my rent (if my boss reads this yes I am paying rent) will be soooooooo much less this way and I will never be alone, there will at least always be another gringo or Nica around. Another reason why I'm so happy is that Mike and I both love to cook, so I'm sure I won't be going out very often nor will I ever have to cook all by myself. Cooking is such a social event for me, it's just not the same without someone else there to eat with.
So with these two great events, today (Saturday) I felt so much better waking up and my body has almost gotten rid of this cold virus I have. That was the biggest downer of this last week, being sick and just feeling yucky all of the time! I hate being sick! Don't worry, Katie is all better and picked herself back up. We all need our down times right?
Other news, I'm working on getting invitations out for the competition which will be on September 30th and securing some sort of financial support from the community for helping buy prizes. It should be a great opportunity to meet some community leaders and try to get some community involvement. It'll be harder to get a ton of ppl to come because it will fall on a work day, but maybe we'll get a couple people to come. I'm more worried about getting donations for prizes since alot of the businesses here in Somoto aren't very big and most NGOs don't have alot of extra funds this year due to the economic slowdown. But with a positive attitude and an open mind anything is possible right!?
Tomorrow I start moving my stuff...yay for my own space! I think I will feel better with a room that I can actually settle down in and be a part of the house and not just a temporary guest! This next week I'm also going to be trained on the Community Bank session so I can train new Nica PC trainees. Should be fun and I get to hang out with Joey in Esteli!
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