Peace Corps is so Hard!

We were pretty spoiled this last week as we had our Reconnect meeting. Beautiful beach setting and great times 'reconnecting' with all the other crazy PC volunteer peeps. There were mullets, Rock-Paper-Scissor tournaments, and 'superbeds' involved. Unfortunately we were reminded of the danger of being a foreigner with a few incidents that occured one night to two groups walking back from the beach. It took a toll on the group, but made us realize - made me realize how much we all mean to each other.

Coming back to my capital city, I was eager to go back to site to get started on a World Water Day Radio ad, but was just too exhausted and couldn't finish a couple of errands in town before heading back to site. Right now, because it's the rainy season, there's only one bus opportunity per day. Fortunately, I have nice friends and Robyn helped me edit the Radio ad that I had put together in very poor Spanish. Thanks Robyn.

Now heading back to site tomorrow, I am feeling a little depressed today. I think most of it is due to lack of sleep. Maybe things will be better tomorrow when I wake up. So what I got going for me this next week is I will be helping with a general meeting about the water to inform the people of the new changes. The next day is World Water Day (March 22) which is a great opportunity to help educate the people of the water issues that people face and will face in the future. I leave the next week to meet my sponsor child and am lucky enough to have Frieda and Fletch to come with me. After that I will head back to Lima for a Project Development meeting where 2 members of my community will be heading down.

Other fun dates... half marathon in July (on the beach) and possibly the Lima marathon in Aug.