4 Weeks Done

Hello,

Live is as good as it can be, though I woulnd't mind speaking the language a little better...family life is good and there is a lot to report but I am not I can write a lot of my views about certain aspects of the culture, because one, the PC policemen and women would call me ethno-centric, although it is only an observation which may be funneled through my past teachings and american culture, but if that is the case, no one can ever make an observation again without it being ethno-centric because we are all influenced by family, faith, schooling, culture and civil society as a whole, right? So it was a little bit of an illogical statement, anyways...secondly, lots of people read this and I sure dont want to put the Peace Corps in jeopardy if someone from the Mozambican government reads this and doesnt appreciate some of my viewpoints, it has happened before...but anyways i love the country overall...So I decided to share one moment which apparently has made its way to PCV throughout the country...
We have water filters and we have to filter the water and put a small amount of bleach in afterwards...it was a week before i set mine up and that day we play soccer with the local kids and it was really hot so i was chugging bleach water all day...I go to bed and wake up at 3am and have to go to the bathroom, so i get out of my room and go to the backdoor and i said to myself, "I have to go right now," 5 seconds later I am 5 feet away from my backdoor and 50 feet away from the outhouse and I said, "I have to go right f!@##%^ here" and I pulled my pants down and covered an area of, o i dont know, 8 feet with 4 days worth of food...so it is 315am and I am bathing myself at this water spicket naked and i dont have a flashlight to find the area in which i decimated with my feces, so i fill a basilla up with agua and dump it all around hoping it would wash it away...so i wake up the next morning and my family is digging dirt to cover up the area so the kids and dogs dont play in it and all i can say in my limited portuguese (it was the first week i moved in) was desculpe and obrigado, sorry and thank you...so i get home from class and on top of the new dirt are all of their large buckets to keep people off of it...so there you have it, my family thought it was funny and i decided i was ready for the rest of my time in sub-saharan africa.

Yo

Going, ok, only sick once so far. Not much to report, the language is going slow and there is a lot of stress on all of us to adjust to the living situations and along with learning a language, meeting the expectations of our host families and finishing other things the Peace Corps wants from us. The next 8 weeks will be increasingly challenging. I have never been so high at one point and absolutely depressed the next moment. Got to go. Love you all.

Bom Dia Mafuiane

Ho Ho Ho,



greetings from the motherland...what a time so far, I will just give short tidbits and use your imagination...first my new phone, i can get free text messages so write your heart away; my # is 827339507 and you must type 00258 for like an area code or something first, ill text you back if you i got it...um where do i start... for tatum, taking a bucket bath under the milky way while malaria filled mosquitoes surround you, and yes i cover my penis steve...you aint never had breakfast until you have eaten a fried egg covered in oil over top pan fried french fries at 645 am, yummy...i live with a good family, they have all kinds of f'n animals, and i eat meat a lot...all the little kids yell "mulungo" and then run up to you and follow you, come my children...Eu sou voluntaria do Corpo de Paz...i shit outside into the ground, not to bad but it has no ventilation...African women want me to marry them and bring them back to America, it is not tempting be cause I have Laura...Prolly wont get back to the internet until mid december, so it is your responsibility to text me lions and UM scores each weekend...thats about it, not too much, havent seen any national geographic type animals...o wait the first day i got to my family, they put on the only dvd they had, r kelly playing so i sang pissin on me quite funny, k got to go love you all peace