So as promised i got another blog entry done and with less than a day to spare. the other two resolutions are going so so. i did study some ki'che' this week (not quite 3 hours worth but some). and my friend said i could have her GRE book when she's done taking the test. so there's a start.
right now i am chillin in my bed on a lazy sunday afternoon. I was invited to an evangelical church service that was supposed to be today but i didn't go. i was really excited to go too, but last night i couldn't sleep (i think i fell asleep around 430) and the service was at 9. i really wanted to go because i heard evangelical services here are intense. the whole 9 yards: screaming, yelling, crying and of course praising the Lord. Its interesting because the family that invited me seems pretty low key so i was real interested. Anyway, i traded in some intense Lord loving for some intense z's. That is until the host fam decided to get up and yell across the yard at each other and rev up the pick up truck for 15 mins which of course drove mono (the dog) nutz. so it was also a slightly restless morning.
good thing we're on standfast again! meaning for the 5th time in as many months PC/G has issued the order that we are not to leave our site for the weekend. This is actually a good thing for my wallet. i would probably have been hanging out in Xela on Saturday drinking coffee and aprovecharing the free fast WiFi that & Cafe has in the parque central. Then it would be off to a comedor lunch and then of course there's always pasaje to get back to site. i may have dropped about 100Q in the day (~$15). in stead, i hung out here. I made some delicious Kim Chee fried rice. SOOO good. I still have a bit of Kim Chee left so i'm thinking repeat performance.
As far as work goes... well eh. Actually, during the restless hours of the morning i was thinking about starting a girls group with the high school girls here. kind of a before school (they only go to school in the afternoons), hang out fun sesh. it seems like a lot of work so here's hoping that i have the ganas to pull it off. other than that, i have the health promoter group rolling. we have another meeting at the end of this month. I also had a meeting with my unofficial counterpart who works for a NGO run out of Xela and it was a fairly productive meeting. I'm going to start working with her more in one of the other aldeas (towns/villages) so we'll see what that future holds. I think the people there need a bit more help than a lot of the people in this other aldea where my site mate is working. its going to be tough work. lets get 'er to it.
shooties.
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