Tommorrow is Daniel's second birthday. Daniel is mi sobrino (my nephew) and we are celebrating with a massive party that my family has spent all day preparing for. there will be plenty of dulces and beer (at least so i've been informed) for the adults. i cant wait! im having sugar cravings like no other! in fact i wouldnt have had any sweets since i left wichita if it were not for the surprise party for another volunteer tuesday night. his host family is apparently related to mine and when we (the two other volunteers who live with my family) got home from training we were informed we were attending. The cake! oh the cake and pop! i can not tell you how sweet it was. yes sugar cravings...
so next week i have my volunteer visit. i get to visit a current peace corps youth volunteer. she is stationed in Perdenales a six hour bus ride to the southern coast on the haitian boarder. i'm stoked to get to go so close to haiti and get to spend a day at the beach (im getting quite tan- jealous?). plus there is a saturday market with haitian vendors that i will get to go to.
the reggaeton is blaring right now (if you don't know reggaeton think sean paul or daddy yankee) as it always is and i am sweating as i always am. my arms are sore from vaccinations and i noticed there are more schedualed for monday. the water has been gone for the past three days but im stoaked for the party tommorrow.
went to the outdoor market today with my host sister. the poverty and crowdedness reminded me of tanger. i suppose this is the picture of developing countries.
i spend my days in training. its a lot like being back in school 4 hours of spanish then 1 hour lunch then 3 hours of country training where they scare us with medical talk or discuss what development means. im finding that im really interested in development *duh* i guess id have to be to be here. well se fue la luz (electricity just went out ) luckily the computers here are on a generator. the electricity is almost like a game. when it goes out everyone announces it- as if everyone else was blind. then when it comes back everyone announces it again- ahh, la luz! its really quite fun. sometimes the luz will flash once or twice like its going to come back and everyone gets really excited and says "uhhh.... uhhh.." but then it doesn't. maybe the second national sport should be luz watching. oh good times.