Happy Birthday to Me!

Thanks everyone for all the Happy Birthdays! It´s nice to know I am not being forgotten:) I just spent the second week in my site and I think I am getting accostumed to it. It was a little rough at first, I wont lie. For my birthday my family cooked me a birthday cake of sorts. It was a mix of corn meal, sugar, milk (that we just milked from the cow), and butter. We boiled it over an open fire and then covered it and put burning embers on the top. That is apparently an old fashioned oven. It was nice of them to show that they cared about me. And then at the town meeting everyone sang me happy birthday:) All in all it was the best I could have asked for down here. And it just got even better once I saw all the emails:)

What else have I done this week...a lot of nothing. I have started playing cards with the kids at night time. They are all fascinated by my shuffling capabilites. Although trying to explain tot them how to do it is a little tricky but I´m working on it.

The rest of the day, I go for walks and visit people. I go to town meetings and I went to a talk about self esteem. It was for the parents and howt ehy shouldnt call their kids or students stupid or ugly or bad. since the kids internalize it. After all that, it was time for questions and a mom asked, ¨ but what if my kid really is bad¨ I think the point was lost on her.

For the week ahead, I have a meeting with the kids tomorrow. We are trying to see how many high schoolers live in the area so we can petition the government for a school bus. The high school is about a half hour away and costs the kids a lot to get there right now on motorcycle taxis and buses. hopefully we can get a bus donated to the town.

Better run now, dont have a lot of time left on the internet! Dont forget to write!