Saturday, November 1, 2008

Some Bitter...Some Sweet

HAPPY ALL SAINTS DAY!!

There are some bits of news to post. The first is melancholy. Michelle, the other young woman volunteer had to return home for personal/family reasons although she had been planning on staying the year with me. I miss her! Here is a picture of Michelle and I after Mass yesterday, before she left. I'm looking forward to your visit in December, Michelle!



The kids here in Banica and in the two campos I travel to are starting to get to know me better, and I them...so it's getting easier to both discipline and motivate them. The campo kids are MUCH quieter than the Banica students. I am always trying to discipline my classes at the Banica colegio, and trying to get my campo classes to talk and answer questions so can find out what they know! I will try to upload a picture of one of the schools I teach at out in the campos and also of some of the sights here. Right now, internet is slow, so I can't.

Lastly, I tried fresh sugar cane! It's brown and kind of looks like bamboo. They remove the brown shell layer with a machete, then you bite off the cane, chew and suck out the sugar, and spit out the rest. A lot of fun!!

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