April
30, 2012
A
long time without writing
HELLO!
I know it has been a very long time since I
have written a real post on here!
Life here on St. Marie as a Peace Corps
volunteer is going well. I’m in the 3rd week of the last trimester
here, we have school all of May, most of June (except for a few days at the end
when there is a break to celebrate Madagascar’s independence day) and then 2
weeks in July and then I will have officially been a teacher for one year and
have been here in Mada for a year! How the time has flown. Here is a list of
things that have been going on in my life:
- I have figured out that I really like to put things into lists. I don’t know how or why this started but it does make being a teacher a bit easier! Yay for lists J
- I had to buy a new phone two weeks ago. Why you might ask? Here is the sad but true story; I went on my weekly visit to the beach, which is about a 45 min bike ride from my house. When I left my house it was sunny, hot and beautiful, a perfect day to go lay on the beach with a book. I ride my bike there, get my towel, book and snacks set up, walk into the water and then it starts to rain. No big deal a little rain never stopped me from swimming and enjoying the beach. I made sure there was no lightning and continued to swim. Then out of nowhere the nice drizzle of rain turned into a downpour. I got out of the water and stood under a palm tree with all my stuff for 20 mins. After the 20 mins it was still pouring and I made the decision to just go home. I had wrapped my phone in my shirt and shorts while I was swimming but now that I was going to ride I needed to wear them, I carefully took my phone and put it into my backpack and covered it with my towel and book. I rode home in the pouring rain (I have pictures of myself that I took as soon as I got home, I was soaked) got to my house opened my backpack to discover my phone sitting in the bottom of the bag in a puddle L I completely fried my phone. I now carry my phone around in a zip lock baggie just incase there is a freak rainstorm.
- I have become rather resourceful here; I have always been (in my very humble opinion) pretty good at making due with what I had and using what is on hand to get a job done. Example: No clean cups? I would use a jar or better still my hands…yeah I have on occasion drank water out of my hands instead of washing a cup, I only tell this to you to point out that I am a problem solver. So here in Mada I have gotten even craftier in my problem solving abilities. I was at a hotel recently, where there was a toilet. This toilet kept running, the water in the back part kept trickling in and it was starting to annoy me. So I took the lid off the tank and attempted to move the plunger thing up so that the water would stop… bad plan, it broke! Now I had the plunger in one hand and the tank of the toilet filling with water, I knew that if I didn’t stop the water it would over flow. Well, using my super skills I was able to reattach (kinda) the plunger and get the water to stop by rigging up a kind of nail/lever thing with my bobby pin and hair tie. My bobby pin and hair tie are now a permeate fixture in a random hotel here in Mada!
- I had a few friends come and visit me over Easter vacation and
with them I was able to discover the fine eateries here on St. Marie. I
always felt weird going to a restaurant by myself but with my friends I was able to find all
good places. The best one that we discovered was a pizza place called mama
santa pizza. Since discovering this place I have eaten there 4 times. Last
week as I was walking to order my pizza I passes a French guy who works at
the French school here and he called me over to talk. We talked for a bit
and then he asked where I was going, I told him “to get pizza”. His
response was “ An American girl eating pizza for dinner, that’s kinda
cliché” haha it is nice to know that the good people in
Well those are all the stories I have for
now! I hope that life in the states is going wonderfully and that the weather
is starting to warm up! Happy almost May!
Peace, Love and it is almost whale season here!
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