Almost August

This kid kept wanting to fight and wrestle me...he was pretty strong.
Cool pic that Mike took. You can see how clear the lake is. It's like that really far out too.
Walking down to the lake with my brother, Ernes. Our river is on the left.
Nice pic looking west from my village down near the main road.

21 July 2009

Well, I finally got my phone back. It works great now, and luckily getting it fixed was free. I’ve been spoiled having the internet on my phone but it wasn’t bad going without it for 10 days again. This past week or two I’ve just been relaxing basically. Read a lot of books, went to the lake, helped out the family in the fields, worked on a grant, hung out with the peeps in the city, and exercised a lot more.

The weather is finally feeling like summer. It was really cool and rainy for June and July here. The apricots in our village are just now getting ripe – about 2-3 weeks late. It’s a major source of income for the village and people were pretty worried about the weather this year.

After telling myself I wasn’t going to do anymore camps, I was convinced to help my friend Mike next week in his village. After that it will be August already! I don’t even know where the summer went. I’m hoping this winter is just as mild as last years though. But there’s no reason to think about that yet – still have August left!

This Friday some former professional Japanese soccer players are coming to my village with a JICA (kind of like a Japanese Peace Corps) volunteer to put on a soccer seminar. I think it will be very interesting and I’m hoping a lot of people come.

I have to get my grant sent to Peace Corps asap. A whole bunch of things kept preventing me from finishing or sending it this past two weeks and then my phone went and stopped working. It was pretty frustrating but then again things just usually take longer here anyway and I’m basically used to that by now. I’ll let everyone know if it’s accepted since I’ll be asking for donations from the States.

Anyway, sorry this post is a little jumbled but figured I’d post something small up since it has been a while. I’m going to post up some older pictures from June that my friend Mike took when he visited my village. Enjoy!

Pat