18 junio 2011
Too bad i just WISH i lived in Venecia and didn’t just have a flooded house for no reason. Happy fathers day. The day before fathers day I threw a surprise party for shantonu (the other volunteer at my site). He has just arrived in the morning with his brother and his bros gf who are visiting him for a few weeks in ecuador. His birthday was last Monday. And since birthdays are big around he we figured wed throw him a bday-beinvenidos party for him and the bro. all day I was out with them doing things, showing them around san isidro (we went to the river, to eat empanadas, they went to the waterfall, etc) AND I was (secretly) planning for the fiesta. I wasn’t in my house all day. Asi que.. at some point I turned on the focet to my kitchen however i didn’t have water (sometimes theres no water in san isidro or the pressure isn’t strong enough to pump up to my 2nd floor apartment. I could use the ‘bomba’ to electrically pump it but im too lazy to go downstairs and turn it on and then off after im done using it so I usually just huff and puff and go without water if its possible. Whether that means putting off washing the dishes until later or using the big water jugs we use for drinking water. I WILL ADMIT that sometimes I will leave the knob open while I do other things and when I hear the the water has come back I will run over and start doing whatever I needed to do which is usually washing dishes). I don’t know whether I left the knob open on accident or because I meant to get back and turn it off later (which is still an accident that I forgot) either way I arrive at 1130 that night after all the fiestas to find the 3 rooms to my small
house (kitchen, living room, bedroom) filled with water and the focet still running. I tell leyla who of course laughs and jokes about how its happened before which does make me feel better and she makes jokes that im from venezia where theres always flooding. We attempt at getting the majority of the water out, leaving some more cleaning for the next day. Unbelievable. However I was lucky for many reasons:
1.) I was too tired to go out to the discoteca which if I had gone I would have come home much later and to an even bigger mess
2.) My house was semi-clean and thanks to having a puppy also, I didn’t really have anything on the floor other than a few scrap pieces of paper and some pieces of clothing
3.) I got a nice throrough clean of my floors
4.) With tiled floors I will see less damage and hopefully no stinkiness
5.) Learned my lesson
As far as the rest of my life… ive been without internet for a few days which is justamente right on the days I really need it for work. Work is continuing as normal…seguir-ing with old projects, starting new ones. June 16 marked my 1-year anniversary in country… the longest ive ever been outside of the US (it was the longest after 3 months). In 2 months I will complete my 1 year anniversary in-site and from then I have 1 year left until I complete my service. They say things change and seem to come together a lot more after one-year. Im definitely excited to see what this year has to come and im hoping ill really be able to fulfil my mission I have for myself for being here. Today I taught the kids at the rio how to play the game 500 where you try to catch a ball in a group of people to win 500 points. Oh yeah peace corps goal number 2 whatcha thinka bout dat???? Jajaja
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