While the Ides of March was a pretty bad day for Julius Caesar, it’s been a great day for me!!
Life has been moving very slowly lately, it’s really hot, my shoulder has been hurting, I haven’t had any chocolate in the house, and I haven’t had much in terms of actual work to do in village. This was a really hard time for me in my service last year, too, and it’s really the heat that affects me. I’m a sleeper, always have been, and when I can’t sleep everything else is so much more difficult! Last Friday I got myself to Bante to go to the post office, where I knew I had some packages waiting, only to get there and find out the post office was closed, the store I can buy oatmeal was also closed, and the egg lady jacked her prices from 100f an egg to 125f. Little irritants like that aren’t usually a problem, but when you also add in the fact that it is 100 degrees in the shade and your taxi is in the blazing African sun…. it’s tragic.
Anyway, enough of that. Today was a great day. Yesterday I went to Bante to get my packages and there was one from Mom and one from Nana, along with a few letters. Both of the boxes had chocolate, protein, and other American goodies that I have been absolutely craving and at a lack for several weeks. Yay! All of the chocolate was in liquid form but had stayed within it’s wrappers, so was no problem! Then this morning I woke up and it had cooled off in the night – 78 degrees this morning! That is downright cool, all the chocolate was hardened and it’s incredible how much energy suddenly I had… I cleaned my house, did laundry, hauled water (my shoulder is feeling MUCH better), and even went for a bike ride all before 10:30 am. Then I went into town and found BOTH eggs AND bananas in the same trip – I have some new neighbors and have wanted to make them banana bread but haven’t been able to find eggs at 100f, but there they were! While during the heat the little irritants can become big irritants, in the cooler days the little joys can become big joys! So there you have it. Nothing particularly huge or exciting, but just a good day. It’s getting hot now, but one can hope that it will have another cool night tonight!! I will probably get up super early tomorrow morning to bake banana bread before the heat makes it unbearable. Yummy.
I’m still waiting on my latrine money to come through, a bone to pick with Peace Corps, but hopefully this week! Also, be sure to check out www.peacecorps.gov/donate and search for my Spelling Bee project number 680-203 and give a tax-deductible donation where 100% will go DIRECTLY to this awesome student experience!
Love to all. K
(if you are still wondering the Ides of March is March 15th, today, and is a reference from the book Julius Caesar, also the day he was killed.)
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