It has been a very, very
busy few weeks, and the fun isnt even close to being over! Where did I leave
off? Dad left, and real life caught up to me in a very real, very fast way.
That Saturday after his departure, was my very good friends "Despedida",
or going away party. It was a fantastic party, going into the early hours of
the morning, a combindation of PCV's, and her various friends and coleagues
made in Inharrime during her two years there. Admist all of this partying the
underlying factor of my very good friend leaving Mozambique hit home, some
tears were shed, lots of hugs given and many glasses of wine were consumed
haha. All in all, an excellent party and chance to say goodbye (though I have
seen her many more times since then).
The first week in July raced
by, sadly I did not participate in any sort of festivities for the 4th of July,
but I did enjoy looking at all the merriment in the photos from home. Work went
well, I'm currently juggling 3 big projects at the moment, hoping they all come
together smoothly. Then it was Saturday, and I recieved two site visitors - new
volunteers who are currently in Namaacha for PreService Training. To those who
do not diligently read my blog (thank you to those that do) last year, while I
was in training, I came here to Quissico and had a fantastic visit with Angela,
the volutneer I would end up substituting. It was really cool to see how far I
have come in a year, both in a personal and professional aspect.
I hosted two lovely
gentlemen from Saturday until Wednesday morning, we did a variety of things;
visited some local friends/coleagues of mine, toured the hospital, saw my
organizations, went to the lagoon, wandered through town, met up with other
PCV's in town for dinner, listened to good music, and made great food. All in
all, I'd like to think they had a nice time here - its kind of hard not to
enjoy Quissico, this place is incredible. The guys had a crazy travel
experience to get here, a big semi-truck fell off a bridge, blocking half of it
right outside of Xai Xai (about 2 hours south of me) so they had to leave their
bus, walk across the bridge on foot, and try to get out of that crazy town and
get here. Mind you all, this is thier first time out of Namaacha, remember how
intimidated I was, where my language skills were at? It was an interesting day
for them to be sure. Only to be matched by their return trip, not an hour
outside of my town, did their bus get a flat tire. It was replaced and they
were on their way again . . . .to get another within 5 minutes. Sadly that was
not able to be replaced- so they had to find another bus. Thankfully there were
3 of them together, and they all made it to Maputo safely.
Yesterday I didnt leave my
home really, I did all of my laundry (it had been piling up since my trip with
dad), washed all of my dishes, did a big clean of my house, and sat down to try
and organize my life a bit.
I was elected as the
Inhambane Provincial Coordinator for REDES, so I and the other PCV's in
Inhambane with REDES groups are assigned with the task of organizing the annual
REDES workhop. This year it will be held here in Quissico and all the
groups/PCV's in the Inhambane province will come here to learn, celebrate, and
participate in the workshop. It should be a great time. Hopefully.
I am leaving this Saturday
for Namaacha to be a "visiting volunteer" for PST, where I and Colin
(a fellow Moz 18er) will be talking about an Introduction to Organizational
Development to the current trainees. I will be gone from site from Saturday the
13th to Sat/Sun the 20/21st. . . .Did I mention that the REDES conference is on
the 25th?!
gah. stressed.
In addition to the madness
of this month, is next month as well. August holds my Mid-Service conference,
and our big festival here in Quissico. The calendar gods must have it out for
me... my conference is the week before the festival. So I'm trying to work out
a lot of the details now, in the weeks leading up to it, so I'm not totally
swamped and stressed about it during the week before.
gah. again.
Today I have a REDES meeting
in the morning- we have begun making earrings to sell at the festival in
August, and are working out details for the workshop at the end off this month.
Then I will be going to the hospital to work out some details with CCS about my
work this month, and next month. A quick stop in to my one CBO, Despertai (who
unfortunately I havent been working with very much) to see how things are
there. I am so focused on my REDES groups, and the coming events that Despertai
has somewhat fallen by the wayside. It also doesnt help that we havent had a
meeting in 4 months, and every time I go down there, my supervisor/counterpart
isnt there. . get this- she has the audacity to call me yesterday and ask ME
where I have been and why I havent been working with them. . . the insanity of
that statement is just baffling.
gahh.
Then a REDES meeting in the
evening to round off my busy day.
Tomorrow, it'll be something
of a similar nature, lots of running around, getting things organized, packing
for the week in Namaacha - and going up to Inharrime for our final Frango
Friday with Jasmin. . . .
I'm going to really miss
her. She has made such an impact on my life here in Moz, I could literally not
imagine my first year here without her. Jaz, if you ever read this, know how
much I love ya girl, I'm so happy we came into one anothers lives, and am so
excited to see what the next chapter in your life has in store for ya!
-xoxo always, your
quase-sitemate
thats all for now kids. off
to kick butt, and take name.
-tay
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