Mexican in Mozambique

Sometimes I like to facebook stalk old pictures of myself and remember a time when I was clean, and I smelled good, and had long pretty hair, was (somewhat) fashionable, and wasn’t sweating 24 hours a day.   Sometimes I like to read other Peace Corps blogs/journals and remind myself that I’m not as alone as I sometimes feel. Sometimes, actually all the time, I like to facebook stalk RPCVs (returned peace corps volunteers) and think to myself … “they did this too. And now they’re home.” I don’t know why that makes me feel good.   Sometimes I pretend I don’t speak Portuguese when I find someone extremely irritating and want to run away from them, ASAP.   Sometimes I can’t stop thinking about L.A. and what must be happening there.   Sometimes I miss my Mom (& family) so much that I …… cry…   a little. Ahaha. Ok, a lot. Sorta.   Sometimes I wish I was in another place- although I don’t know where.   Sometimes I think back on the ...

Oi,  Two days ago marked my 3 month mark at site! Whoooo! It’s definitely the first of many Peace Corps milestones. Reconnect Conference also took place last week in Maputo. Reconnect Conference happens after your first 3 months at site (our conference was a week premature) and its designed to bring your group back together, share your experiences from site, talk about the challenges you’ve experienced & brainstorm some resiliency strategies to help cope. We also had a session on Monitoring & Evaluation, which is just a fancy way of describing the process of ‘reporting’ back to Washington. I left Chimoio early Sunday (the 4th) and flew down to Maputo. It was great to see my fellow Moz18ers once again and hear about everyone’s experiences at site. We had daily sessions from 8-5 Monday through Thursday and a half day on Friday. On the first night there I got to go to a reggae show on the marginal (like the Cali PCH, but in Maputo) which was pretty great. Aft...

Happy Birthday, Momsiessss <3 " El día en que tu naciste nacieron todas las flores"