Thursday, March 12, 2009

am i still in mozambique?

I'm at "In Service Training" this week and kind of in shock. I'm used to my cold showers, same kind of food all the time, and just living with Becky. We're spending the week in a beautiful resort with HOT showers, wonderful buffet (which I used to be against, but now I see the wonder of the buffet as I go back for 4 different desserts) and everyone from the Southern region is here. The first day was great, because we got together with everyone from education to talk about how the first trimester is going. It was really interesting to here how people are dealing with different challenges, and I am renewed to go back to school and be way more strict! I usually let people come in late because I feel bad, but they never try that with Mozambican teachers, so I am ready to be mean! Today we started project development stuff. We were supposed to do this with a Mozambican counterpart from our school. Our person had some trouble getting down here (not exactly sure still why it took 2 full days to get here), so she missed everything we did today. Becky and I are thinking about working with the girls group at the school, and I am also really interested in starting a science fair.

I visited my host family in Namaacha this weekend. It was really fun to see the kids! It kind of felt like I had never left. As soon as I get there, it's like 'oh wow, your backpack is dirty!' and 'are you sure you washed your whole body and not just your face and feet?' So one full day there was plenty!! Oh man, it's goign to be hard to go back to site after this week!