Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Babe Is On His Way

If all goes well I think I have my new career move when I return to the States: pig raising. We just got funding and will soon receive 11 beautiful piglets. By the time I'm through with them Babe won't stand a chance against my piglets' skills. I'm talking jumping through rings of fire and saving small children from rivers. Yeah, they're going to be that amazing. Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit on my own abilities to pig-wrangle, but I think this one's in the bag. Anyway, I'm working on this project with my AIDS group and we're all really excited...and I'm actually really looking forward to hopefully learning how to do this...but mainly I'll be relying on other people to take care of them. I do envision myself chasing after 11 piglets through the mud in oversized boots. Should make for good stories.

Other things: hmmm...Christmas and New Years were really good. I spent Christmas at my best friend's house with her family. I took along two of my Peace Corps friends. We made stockings and brought along Christmas music to bring Christmas cheer to all! As it turns out it's really hard and weird to explain WHY we put gifts in over-sized socks and then give them to our family. After we went through that we thought Christmas music was the way to really kick off the day! After the three of us made it through about 3 Christmas songs on my IPOD the kids finally sighed really loudly and said "can we listen to Bongo Flava now"...so much for that! I told them they didn't have Christmas Cheer. They didn't seem to care.

The rains have started. I like to think I'm blessing the rains down here...but instead I'm just trying not to fall in the mud. Things are good.


Yeah, so I'm just here hanging out and working on my projects. I'm going to start teaching English again in a couple weeks along with other things. Karibu sana!

-Catherine