Thursday, August 16, 2012

day 434: it's a palindrome! also, work. it got nuts.

SUP FRIENDS!

Feeling way better than I was that other day. See? I just need a few days for the glums to go away~

I don't actually have much time to be writing this, but that's exactly what I wanted to write about: WHEN DID ALL THIS WORK HAPPEN???

A few months ago, my days were pretty lax and pretty much crazy boring. My nutrition class fell through when the grant got pushed back a few months, my english classes were still there but student numbers were down to like 4 people. The Family/Sexual violence committees were doing their own work plans so it was just a matter of waiting for them to finish, and my youth group was on vacation. I had literally nothing to do, so I went to Trujillo and sat at a café for hours, I did my nails, cleaned my room a lot, watched 2 seasons of The Wire, read a bit more of Game of Thrones, finished another book called "why do men have nipples" (don't ask... but interesting), and sat in bed. A lot.

Well, dear friends, all that is done and over with. I'm working on the nutrition grant due the end of this month, I have a sex ed group about to start in Pacasmayo, my VA.y.A. youth group is clamoring to meet, I have an english nutrition program that needs to be completed within the next month, I'm working with a lady to get an escuela de padres formed and running in one of the schools so we're working on getting money from local organizations and the municipality, I'm researching gardening/how to create your own garden to convert my english kids into an environmental awareness group, I just got a call from a lady who lives in CHEPEN who wants to work with me to work on how to get a bunch of rowdy delinquents in line (no idea how this one will play out, but we'll see), and the family/sexual violence group is starting to make moves next week.

DEAR LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH AND THE ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE.

My head is hurting just writing all this down.

On top of all this, I gotta get work DONE before I head into Lima in 3 days for a week of med checks and training and getting to see allllll my lovely 17er youthies < 3 and I'll be leading some short training sessions for PSN while I'm there

Plus I'm running a 10k on the Sunday right before I head back to site.

I feel like sometimes I don't make good decisions, even though those decisions are for good things. But all this busy'll pass, like it or not, and my ride on the PC ride continues.

That's all for now! Gotta go eat something before I burn out, go teach my english class, review 2 documents to turn into 2 municipalities and a cement factory, and finish up year one of the nutrition document. EEP!

Vamanos Amigos!
With Peace and Love~

1 comment:

  1. Good morning how are you?

    My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.

    I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.

    For all this I would ask you one small favor:
    Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Peru? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Peru in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:

    Emilio Fernandez Esteban
    Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
    28902 Getafe (Madrid)
    Spain

    If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.

    Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.

    Yours Sincerely

    Emilio Fernandez

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