Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had a great time with your families and managed to gain a few pounds :) We had a big PC celebration in the capital with a Turkey Trot, sports, a talent show, and obviously a big Thanksgiving lunch! All of the food was homemade at the embassy families' houses, and we got our favorites of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and veggies. But the best part was the pies. We had tables of like 8ish, and every table got a pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate mousse, apple stroudel, and brownies. It was awesome. Not quite as good as my mom's Thanksgiving dinner table, but it didn't include rice or boiled platanos so it was awesome. It was nice to be with the Peace Corps family for Thanksgiving!
In terms of work, I'm about half way through my community diagnostic, where I go house to house and interview all of the families in my community about health and living conditions. More times then not, I leave the houses with bags of chinolas (passion fruit), chinas (oranges), or huevos criollos (Dominican eggs- the yolk is bright orange and they are SO delicious! But yes, they just hand me two eggs to carry to my house. I love it.) I'm learning a lot about my community, like that things are a little different than I thought by looking on the surface. It seems like I'll be able to do a lot of projects- I found there is some need that I hadn't realized. And even though my community has agua, luz, and letrines, there's about 10 houses without letrines. So hopefully if everything works out, I'll be able to learn how to build latrines (yay!).
All is well here. Sorry I suck at blogging regularly. Nothing much is going on while I do my community diagnostic. And no one here can understand my spanish, so that's not so fun. But I guess it can only improve. Until the next time I remember to blog, Adios!
