Random Thoughts

This was written Saturday, January 5th

So I'm sitting here typing this in my room and it has been raining since Thursday night (it's now Saturday afternoon.) There was a few moments of sunshine at noon today, but that didn't last long. Today I was supposed to go to Santiago in the morning to make copies of my community diagnostic so I could get going on that, and I was going to go to the mall there that has free wireless internet (yes...I really am in the Peace Corps.) But I guess I'm becoming too Dominican because when it's raining I don't do anything. It's not like I don't have an umbrella or anything, it's just that I don't feel like leaving the house. The road out of my town is all muddy and I really didn't feel like getting muddy today.

We were also supposed to have a water committee meeting today at 2pm, but alas that got cancelled as well since nobody does anything when it's raining. Since I knew I wasn't going to be doing anything today I didn't wake up until 10. I then had breakfast of bread and juice and coffee. I'm now getting my coffee black, the way I like it. I didn't have the heart to tell them that I like it that way, as it is considered very weird, but I told them that when I was in Cabarete I tried it that way and it was my favorite. They still thought it was pretty weird, but whatever because now I get a lovely glass of black coffee every morning, and usually at night too. I then watched TV until 12, when I had lunch. I then took a bucket bath and have been on my computer ever since. (It's now 4pm.) In that time I have written these lovely blog entries for you all, made updates to my community map, community diagnostic, wrote a rather lengthy email to my sister about places to stay when my family visits in March. I have a countdown calendar on my computer...it's only 82 days until they come. I'm sure that is going to fly by.

I would like to congratulate (that word does not look right) my friend on her recent (oh look...here come more sunshine) getting of internet in her place (you know who you are.) Now I get to receive text messages from her all the time...woohoo! Oh yeah...and all of you people better get moving on sending text messages with that website below. And don't use the excuse that the webpage is in Spanish. There is a big picture of a phone...if you can't figure it out I probably don't want text messages from you anyways.

I want to talk a little bit more about my rad visit to Cabarete last week. I had a bottle of one of my two favorite beers, Duvel, complete with Duvel glass and everything. It cost $290 DR, which is about $9 US, but it was well worth it. Sadly they did not have Tripel Karmeliet. Also, I got to have a video conference with my family through Skype. It was really nice to see all their lovely faces.

Words cannot even describe how excellent sour patch kids and dark chocolate peanut M&Ms are. Thanks to my fam who sent them to me for Christmas. What a lovely Christmas present. Who would have ever thought that such a simple Christmas gift could go so far. Also, thanks to my bro for sending my my computer and the lovely new case he bought for it. Yeah, if you feel like sending any care packages definitely put those things in it.

Ok...that's it for now, sorry for all the parentheses and my random babbling thoughts, but that's how it goes sometimes.

Now it's Sunday, I was going to go to Santiago today, but it's still raining on and off, and I found out yesterday that nothing is open on Sundays, so I'm going to try and make it there tomorrow (Monday).