Hello all my readers. Am so sorry it has been a long time since I have last wrote anything here. So here is the update in short. I will have longer version under this one if you care to read.
This is my First year mark of being in the Peace Corps The Gambia. I have made it through all the hard challenges and changes. The Peace Corps has had both its ups and downs for me within the last year, more up then downs. But it’s just like any other job/organization in the world. You have people who work very hard and listen, those who work but don’t listen and then those who do nothing but complain and nothing to change it. I have tried to my best ability to be a person who works hard and listens when playing my part, I also know my limits and I do know how to say NO now. But overall I would never wish to go back in time and change my thoughts about joining the Peace Corps. It has been every bit of the new adventure and experience it say it will/would be.
Personally, I have made big changes in my life since being here. I have had the chance to open myself up more. I have the time to get to know myself and grow. Reading more books (not only fiction) which have enlightened me to new things, I didn’t know already and they allow me to escape in my mind. I have learned to take what it is you have not for granted. They are many things that I left at home or that I cannot afford to have here that I thought “I just had to have”. But now I know that you can live with bare minimum and be just as happy or even more. That life should not revolve around your work/job/career there are many more things out there in life that can give you pleasure. As I have come to find out there is nothing more rewarding them the company of another person in which you can share ideas, thought and cultural.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Part 1 My Family and Friends State side
This is about me missing my family and friends in the states. I have kept in touch with more people then I thought I would have. You would never believe how much a letter, picture, card or email means when you are very far away from your norm. To have a blog is a good ideal but I think that it can be done from both sides me and those in the states. It allows them to have information about me and my doings just as much as it would allow me to check on the same for them. Or to at least have a webpage that you could keep up with small updates and pictures.
Well since my family and I are both missing each other I think I will be coming/going home very soon. I was making plans to come home in December but people are telling me to come for the summer break and not winter. So I will be checking into airplane tickets to check the cost I hope it’s not too much. I don’t have cash like that even though I have been saving I still have to think about the cost of me being home and going out. And I hope to get to see as many people as possible and go out every day of the weekend and maybe even some week nights. But first is a must needed shopping trip.
The Best Quote: From my brother “What you don’t come home till next year. Oh no you have to come home now. I miss me litter sis.”
Well since my family and I are both missing each other I think I will be coming/going home very soon. I was making plans to come home in December but people are telling me to come for the summer break and not winter. So I will be checking into airplane tickets to check the cost I hope it’s not too much. I don’t have cash like that even though I have been saving I still have to think about the cost of me being home and going out. And I hope to get to see as many people as possible and go out every day of the weekend and maybe even some week nights. But first is a must needed shopping trip.
The Best Quote: From my brother “What you don’t come home till next year. Oh no you have to come home now. I miss me litter sis.”
Part 2 The Gambia
The Gambia has been a wonderful place to be. I have enjoyed my time with the people, cultural, customs, and life style. When coming to this country I came with a very open mind and low expectations. I believe that me coming here without knowing much about the country and have low expectations has opened me up to the Gambia. If I would have come with an ideal in mind of how life was to be I think I would have been disappointed but because I didn’t I have not had any real disappointing points since being here. I have not had the chance to see the entire (most) of the country but my travels will come.
Lately the weather has been my problem with all the heat. It has been regularly 37 or 39 Celsius (roughly about 100 plus degrees) like every day. The night time does get better but its not all to cold. The season is about to change again and now its time for the rains to come. I don’t think I will like it any much more then I like this hot season. Why because now it will be very hard to stay clean and dry. The one thing that all the change has brought about is fruit. I have been eating so many mangoes, guava, cashews (both the nut and the fruit), jack fruit, and other random local fruits. I will have to put up pictures for you to see what some of these things look like. Some are things I have never seen or even heard of.
Lately the weather has been my problem with all the heat. It has been regularly 37 or 39 Celsius (roughly about 100 plus degrees) like every day. The night time does get better but its not all to cold. The season is about to change again and now its time for the rains to come. I don’t think I will like it any much more then I like this hot season. Why because now it will be very hard to stay clean and dry. The one thing that all the change has brought about is fruit. I have been eating so many mangoes, guava, cashews (both the nut and the fruit), jack fruit, and other random local fruits. I will have to put up pictures for you to see what some of these things look like. Some are things I have never seen or even heard of.
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