Peace Corpsing Across the Universe!

So,

Umm let me explain.  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up.  Not quite gonna go through it.

Hitting the year mark was hard.  Felt good about a lot of milestones, want a lot more.  Set the goal of being a better part of my community and of accomplishing a couple major projects.  Doing well on that.  More soon.

Had toe surgery.  Was rough - don't recommend surgery in the third world, but hey.  I survived.  Went to America, it was awesome.  More on that.  Andy and Dan visited - double awesome.  Finally started to get some major traction on projects, also awesome.  Doing really well on community (village and Peace Corps) integration stuff - really feeling at home here at an all new level.  Had some awesome adventures in the village recently and things are on a good track.  Even making some progress on jobs for when I get back!

Basically, it got really busy and the internet was broken at site for awhile and there was a lot of travelling and then for awhile I was just emotionally exhausted so I didn't post.  That was a bit of a down time, but not a big deal - just a slump from the combination of passing the middle mark, getting back from an awesome vacation, and some other junk.  But the slump has passed, yes my friends the slump has passed!

So let me sum up some of those adventures for you!

Did you know I killed and ate an iguana?  It dug a nest in my garden, but I could see it's tail!  And so I called  bunch of my friends, we dug it up, and we ate it!  You cook it like a chicken...that is if you would cook a chicken in a big pot with all of it's eggs in there with the machete-chopped-up meat!  And it was delicious!  The eggs have a leathery shell you kind of splooshslurp them out of and are nearly all yolk, but they are good in a heavy way.  And the tail meat is the best, but it's all good!  That's the first time I've really fully been involved in the kill and eat process.

I called over the friends who hadn't helped me kill it and we just sat on my porch and had an iguana feast!  Now that is a pretty cool day!

You DID know I went to America.  You may also know that America is AWESOME.  Ahh I want to keep posting because I'm finally in a writing mood...but it is late and I have a cold and I'm travelling tomorrow.

So more soon.  I promise!

Ah!