Hey
I forgot my address for everyone
Mail cards to this address ~
Michelle Kramer
Escola Secondaria de Nametil
A\C DPE
Nampula, Mozambique
And packages can still go to the Maputo address
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Hey everyone~
Well I am in Monapu, I am visiting friends and will be going to tthe Isle de Mocambique tomorrow for Christmas. So far everything is great. We have been in our town for 1 week and everyone there is awesome. We had a nice little welcome lunch and pretty much have met everyone in town. It is funny though, some little kids that are 1 or less see us and cry cause we are white. Its entertaining to say the lleast. Well we havenºt done much. WE have slept and walked and went out to the bar and discoteca. We live in an old colonial house that is huge. It is a guest house because our house is not ready for us. When we arrived they showed us 3 different houses and we chose the one that was in the bairro, bascially the center of where everyone lives and not one of the nice cement houses. We chose the dirt house. To get this house we had to compromise and we will be getting a girl that comes in from another town to go to school, she will live with us. We pay her tuition which is nothing, buy her notebooks and feed her. She in turn helps us cook, clean and get our water. It should be a decent trade off. They also tried getting us to hire a security person which we shot down. We donºt want to stand out anymore than we do. The girl living with us happens alot here, a lot of the teaqchers or wealthier people have the kids in their home as a way to help them and help the kid get their education. Traveling can be quite expensive and a pain in the ass, especially where we live. We are in the booniess, to say the least.
Lets see we have become good friends with this lady Ilda, she is a doll. She is 23 and works for the school. She lives with her 3 siblings, the youngest being 5 and she so fun to play with. We have also met the owner of the bar and discoteca which has opened her home and calls us her kids. Within the first 2 minutes of meeting her she showed us her house which is gigantic and she has a monkey. She has 5 kids and is a reeally good person. She has just been a real nice perosn to be around and her family is great. Her son speaks pretty good english which makes life a whole lot easier for me. I can actually carry on a real conversation with someone. Me and Helana are getting along great. PLus she is the way that I get through the days. I have depended on her portuguese a lot. Which I have to stop or I am not going to learn anything new. I just keep saying that it will come, in time.
So our town is small, we donºt have much available. We have basic things in our market like potatoes, tomatoes, riice, coconuts, beans onion. In the bar you can get beer, soda and stuff like that. We have very limited things to choose from, we can get fish which we have eaten a lot, chicken only once and i refuse to kill it and goat which neither of us will kill. So our diets will be rather bland, but that is ok. Our school is fairly big, relatively new and has a computer lab which is awesome. All the directors seem really nice and I canºt wait till school starts, doing nothing all day is really boring. I have made lots of jewelry and some curtains. I will make more when I return to town. We have went to the bar almost everyday, not to drink but to socialize. We have a housekeeper that really urks me cause we canºt have males that he doesnºt know at the house at night. Which sucks when you want to sit around and chat with friends. So that means we have to leave to do anything. He constantly wants to know where we are goiong and why and it is just annoying me. Anyway thats the only down fall so far. Me and Helana walked to the river which was a good 45 minute walk there just ot do something. Anyway I should go, this is costing me an arm and a leg. I will write more as soon as I can, aat least once a month. If anyone wants to call, my phone will work now. It should be on for the next couple of days, maybe till sunday. I donºt know about my battery cause the girls we are visiting dontºt have electricity to charge the phone. Other than that, i donºt know.
WEll I hope everyone has a merry christmas and a happy new year!!!!
Be safe
Love,
Shells xoxoxooxoxox
Well I am in Monapu, I am visiting friends and will be going to tthe Isle de Mocambique tomorrow for Christmas. So far everything is great. We have been in our town for 1 week and everyone there is awesome. We had a nice little welcome lunch and pretty much have met everyone in town. It is funny though, some little kids that are 1 or less see us and cry cause we are white. Its entertaining to say the lleast. Well we havenºt done much. WE have slept and walked and went out to the bar and discoteca. We live in an old colonial house that is huge. It is a guest house because our house is not ready for us. When we arrived they showed us 3 different houses and we chose the one that was in the bairro, bascially the center of where everyone lives and not one of the nice cement houses. We chose the dirt house. To get this house we had to compromise and we will be getting a girl that comes in from another town to go to school, she will live with us. We pay her tuition which is nothing, buy her notebooks and feed her. She in turn helps us cook, clean and get our water. It should be a decent trade off. They also tried getting us to hire a security person which we shot down. We donºt want to stand out anymore than we do. The girl living with us happens alot here, a lot of the teaqchers or wealthier people have the kids in their home as a way to help them and help the kid get their education. Traveling can be quite expensive and a pain in the ass, especially where we live. We are in the booniess, to say the least.
Lets see we have become good friends with this lady Ilda, she is a doll. She is 23 and works for the school. She lives with her 3 siblings, the youngest being 5 and she so fun to play with. We have also met the owner of the bar and discoteca which has opened her home and calls us her kids. Within the first 2 minutes of meeting her she showed us her house which is gigantic and she has a monkey. She has 5 kids and is a reeally good person. She has just been a real nice perosn to be around and her family is great. Her son speaks pretty good english which makes life a whole lot easier for me. I can actually carry on a real conversation with someone. Me and Helana are getting along great. PLus she is the way that I get through the days. I have depended on her portuguese a lot. Which I have to stop or I am not going to learn anything new. I just keep saying that it will come, in time.
So our town is small, we donºt have much available. We have basic things in our market like potatoes, tomatoes, riice, coconuts, beans onion. In the bar you can get beer, soda and stuff like that. We have very limited things to choose from, we can get fish which we have eaten a lot, chicken only once and i refuse to kill it and goat which neither of us will kill. So our diets will be rather bland, but that is ok. Our school is fairly big, relatively new and has a computer lab which is awesome. All the directors seem really nice and I canºt wait till school starts, doing nothing all day is really boring. I have made lots of jewelry and some curtains. I will make more when I return to town. We have went to the bar almost everyday, not to drink but to socialize. We have a housekeeper that really urks me cause we canºt have males that he doesnºt know at the house at night. Which sucks when you want to sit around and chat with friends. So that means we have to leave to do anything. He constantly wants to know where we are goiong and why and it is just annoying me. Anyway thats the only down fall so far. Me and Helana walked to the river which was a good 45 minute walk there just ot do something. Anyway I should go, this is costing me an arm and a leg. I will write more as soon as I can, aat least once a month. If anyone wants to call, my phone will work now. It should be on for the next couple of days, maybe till sunday. I donºt know about my battery cause the girls we are visiting dontºt have electricity to charge the phone. Other than that, i donºt know.
WEll I hope everyone has a merry christmas and a happy new year!!!!
Be safe
Love,
Shells xoxoxooxoxox
Hey everyone
Well So far what I have seen of Nampula is very interesting. It is not flat like Maputo, it has some curves to it and in places there are these huge mountainous like rocks that just jut out of the earth. It is definitely interesting. ~I really hávenºt seen anything else. I think I am in the city but I really donºt know, if I am its really small. It is supposedly the 3rd largest in Moz so I don´t think i have seen what this place has to offer yet. I will see more when I go shopping after I write this email. We have to get everything for our house today and then take it for a 2 hour road trip to our house. How not fun, but it has to be done. So it seems more and more like the town that we are going to is rural. They said it was and continue to tell us that it has nothing. I found out we have a nice school, our school has a computer and a vehicle, which means we can catch a ride into Nampula with whomever is going into town, which saves us money on chapa rides. We are also the first female teachers in our school. So I am not sure how that will work. Not only are we women but we are American. I Am sure there will be plusses and minuses.
So today our PC director that is with us to help us get settled in was telling us how our school director was saying that he is thinking about a different house for us to move into, I guess because he thought this one wasnºt good enough. Who knows, the Peace Corps is just like we dumped a lot of money into this house what are you doing. I guess this guy didnºt realize that he was really getting volunteers.
Okay I am going to end this here because this computer is taking so long to load pages and I really want to be able to read my emails that I received. So sorry mom for not sending you a personal email, Jeannette and the kids and Scott is was nice talking to you guys last night. It definitely brightened my night. I love hearing all of your voices. Farhana thanks for the advice. Cor I got your package and thanks a mil, I am waiting to open the gifts!! Mom you know i got your package and am waiting on one more.
So I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I will be thinking about all of you.
Love and Miss you all,
Shells xoxooxoxo
Well So far what I have seen of Nampula is very interesting. It is not flat like Maputo, it has some curves to it and in places there are these huge mountainous like rocks that just jut out of the earth. It is definitely interesting. ~I really hávenºt seen anything else. I think I am in the city but I really donºt know, if I am its really small. It is supposedly the 3rd largest in Moz so I don´t think i have seen what this place has to offer yet. I will see more when I go shopping after I write this email. We have to get everything for our house today and then take it for a 2 hour road trip to our house. How not fun, but it has to be done. So it seems more and more like the town that we are going to is rural. They said it was and continue to tell us that it has nothing. I found out we have a nice school, our school has a computer and a vehicle, which means we can catch a ride into Nampula with whomever is going into town, which saves us money on chapa rides. We are also the first female teachers in our school. So I am not sure how that will work. Not only are we women but we are American. I Am sure there will be plusses and minuses.
So today our PC director that is with us to help us get settled in was telling us how our school director was saying that he is thinking about a different house for us to move into, I guess because he thought this one wasnºt good enough. Who knows, the Peace Corps is just like we dumped a lot of money into this house what are you doing. I guess this guy didnºt realize that he was really getting volunteers.
Okay I am going to end this here because this computer is taking so long to load pages and I really want to be able to read my emails that I received. So sorry mom for not sending you a personal email, Jeannette and the kids and Scott is was nice talking to you guys last night. It definitely brightened my night. I love hearing all of your voices. Farhana thanks for the advice. Cor I got your package and thanks a mil, I am waiting to open the gifts!! Mom you know i got your package and am waiting on one more.
So I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I will be thinking about all of you.
Love and Miss you all,
Shells xoxooxoxo
Hey everyone~
Well today is Thursday and I swear in on Saturday night. We had our going away party yesterday with our families and we have just been living it up at the hotel. Boy do I love running water and air. I tried sending an email last week with no success. Life has been happening here. I am moving to Nametil, Nampula. It is a northern province. Think of Moz as the east coast. I have been at the bottom and am flying to the top. It is a 2 hour flight with a 2-3 hour chapa ride. I am so excited. This will be the first time that PC is in Nampula and there are 2 groups of us going-all girls. I will be living with Helana which people have commented is an odd pair. I think we will be good together-she is a bio teacher. I met my supervisor today-I am kind of weirded out by him-that may just be me. But it is supposed to be awesome where I am going. I can't believe I will be the first in the town-but I did request that. The northern province has a big muslim community. Which may or may not have an impact on how the school is-I will find out soon. I will be living in a mud house with a cement floor-this is mandatory. I have electricity but do not have cell phone capabilities-I am told within a year this should happen. I am keeping my phone and figure I will use it once a month when I go into the city. I will let everyone know when that is so that we can keep in touch. Basically if you want to talk to me, I suggest calling....now. I don't guarantee anything after sunday. Oh one thing chega-which means no more packages for now. Since I will be in Nampula I will only be coming to Maputo every 3 months. Which means my package would be here and I won't see it for that long. So when I get an address in Nampula I will send it out. Letters definitely I want sent to Nampula, the thing with packages is that the PC pays for them to get out of customs. If they are sent to my site then I have to pay out of pocket. So maybe send the packages just remember that it will be awhile. The next time I will be in Maputo is late April.
Anyway I am really excited. I can't believe training is over. We have a big party at the ambassadors and then we're off. Well thats all for now. I will write some time soon...maybe. Who knows.
Love you and miss you all,
Shells
Well today is Thursday and I swear in on Saturday night. We had our going away party yesterday with our families and we have just been living it up at the hotel. Boy do I love running water and air. I tried sending an email last week with no success. Life has been happening here. I am moving to Nametil, Nampula. It is a northern province. Think of Moz as the east coast. I have been at the bottom and am flying to the top. It is a 2 hour flight with a 2-3 hour chapa ride. I am so excited. This will be the first time that PC is in Nampula and there are 2 groups of us going-all girls. I will be living with Helana which people have commented is an odd pair. I think we will be good together-she is a bio teacher. I met my supervisor today-I am kind of weirded out by him-that may just be me. But it is supposed to be awesome where I am going. I can't believe I will be the first in the town-but I did request that. The northern province has a big muslim community. Which may or may not have an impact on how the school is-I will find out soon. I will be living in a mud house with a cement floor-this is mandatory. I have electricity but do not have cell phone capabilities-I am told within a year this should happen. I am keeping my phone and figure I will use it once a month when I go into the city. I will let everyone know when that is so that we can keep in touch. Basically if you want to talk to me, I suggest calling....now. I don't guarantee anything after sunday. Oh one thing chega-which means no more packages for now. Since I will be in Nampula I will only be coming to Maputo every 3 months. Which means my package would be here and I won't see it for that long. So when I get an address in Nampula I will send it out. Letters definitely I want sent to Nampula, the thing with packages is that the PC pays for them to get out of customs. If they are sent to my site then I have to pay out of pocket. So maybe send the packages just remember that it will be awhile. The next time I will be in Maputo is late April.
Anyway I am really excited. I can't believe training is over. We have a big party at the ambassadors and then we're off. Well thats all for now. I will write some time soon...maybe. Who knows.
Love you and miss you all,
Shells
Hey Everyone~~
Well another week has finished and I can't say it was anything because I missed school for three days. I was however able to teach for 2 days and next week will be full of teaching. I've had a major headache and finally yesterday I was given migraine medicine which seems to be doing the trick. Nothing like having migraines in Moz. It sucks and all I have done is lay around the yard all day and sleep, talk and eat. What more could I possibly want.
I did get mail yesterday which was awesome. Thanks mom and Scott. Scott~~I received the money you sent thanks. Mom I will send those stamps back to you, thanks for thinking of me. I love fridays mail and money what more could you want....running water-oh how I miss you.
So last night during dinner we lost power. I had to take my flashlight to the latrine which I have stopped doing and I realized why I had stopped. Its so much nicer when you don't see all the wonderful critters. But without the flashlight when there is no electricity you can't see your hand in front of your face-I am not quite sure what happened to the moon light.
So for the most part my week has been blah. I have spent lots of time at home and have learned a lot about my family. I was able to fill out a form that stated where I wanted to go-it may not happen but I have hopes that it will. I stated the beach-but I am sure lots of people said the beach.
I spent a lot of time with my host sister-whom I really admire. She seems to have her head on straight and I want to help her but I run into this problem of whether or not too. I mean I help where I can but there are so many other families out there that need more help than my family. I mean my host sister is in the process of getting her own house built and there are so many other families that can't even feed there children let alone pay for a home. There is so much need and so little money. What my host mom makes in a month the P.C. pays her in a week for having me. And we're only talking about $40 a week for me. Thats what she makes in a month-to me that is outrageous-we would crab if thats what we made in a day let alone a month. So different-so very different.
Oh I wanted to say that if you don't receive mail from me don't feel offended. What it costs to mail one letter is more than for an hour of internet. And it takes a hell of a lot longer. I know some of you wanted my web site address but I have no idea what it is...sorry- but really my emails are what is on my website. I do however have my address :
Michelle Kramer, PCT
Peace Corps
C.P. 4398
Maputo, Mozambique
Other than that-the food is well rice-always, beans-sometimes, mboa and coulve-which I like a lot, fish which I don't like, some chicken stew thing which is pretty good, some skin of some animal which I won't touch.
Speaking of not touching things-I found a kitten last night and I fed it lots of fish. I think it was very happy though it wasn't moving a whole lot this morning. I think I may have over fed it. It is crawling with fleas-oh yeah mom can you send me a few dog flea collars, cat flea collars and I was also thinking about those things you put in the nape of the animals neck that liquid stuff. Don't worry about when you send it, I just figure with some package taht you will send. Dogs are a great thing to have to protect the house-when they decide to stay around and not pasear--which means to walk around, cats are good for the little rodents that seem to be everywhere. I wanted a monkey but that is against peace corps policy. I want to give the kitten a bath but my family insists that when you bathe an animal it dies. I am not quite sure why-but I will let them have their beliefs.
WEll thats all for now, oh yeah I will not be writing anything more for about 2 1/2 weeks. Next weekend we are celebrating thanksgiving, and the following weekend will be the last with our host families. We leave around the 9th or 10th for Maputo and we will be staying in a luxurious hotel for 4 nights. Air conditioning and running water I couldn''t ask for more. WE will be swearing in some day I think the 13th at the ambassadors house which I hear is nice, with swimming pool. So we get it made for a few days and then we're off on our own.
Anyhow I will send emails out in a few weeks. I hope all is well in everyones life. Oh- I want to say that if there is anyone out there that is still puffing on cigarettes-Quit please. Lung cancer sucks and I'd like all to be around when I get home in two years!
Ok, thats my advice for now,
I miss you all and love you guys lots,
Shells xoxoxoxoxoxo
Well another week has finished and I can't say it was anything because I missed school for three days. I was however able to teach for 2 days and next week will be full of teaching. I've had a major headache and finally yesterday I was given migraine medicine which seems to be doing the trick. Nothing like having migraines in Moz. It sucks and all I have done is lay around the yard all day and sleep, talk and eat. What more could I possibly want.
I did get mail yesterday which was awesome. Thanks mom and Scott. Scott~~I received the money you sent thanks. Mom I will send those stamps back to you, thanks for thinking of me. I love fridays mail and money what more could you want....running water-oh how I miss you.
So last night during dinner we lost power. I had to take my flashlight to the latrine which I have stopped doing and I realized why I had stopped. Its so much nicer when you don't see all the wonderful critters. But without the flashlight when there is no electricity you can't see your hand in front of your face-I am not quite sure what happened to the moon light.
So for the most part my week has been blah. I have spent lots of time at home and have learned a lot about my family. I was able to fill out a form that stated where I wanted to go-it may not happen but I have hopes that it will. I stated the beach-but I am sure lots of people said the beach.
I spent a lot of time with my host sister-whom I really admire. She seems to have her head on straight and I want to help her but I run into this problem of whether or not too. I mean I help where I can but there are so many other families out there that need more help than my family. I mean my host sister is in the process of getting her own house built and there are so many other families that can't even feed there children let alone pay for a home. There is so much need and so little money. What my host mom makes in a month the P.C. pays her in a week for having me. And we're only talking about $40 a week for me. Thats what she makes in a month-to me that is outrageous-we would crab if thats what we made in a day let alone a month. So different-so very different.
Oh I wanted to say that if you don't receive mail from me don't feel offended. What it costs to mail one letter is more than for an hour of internet. And it takes a hell of a lot longer. I know some of you wanted my web site address but I have no idea what it is...sorry- but really my emails are what is on my website. I do however have my address :
Michelle Kramer, PCT
Peace Corps
C.P. 4398
Maputo, Mozambique
Other than that-the food is well rice-always, beans-sometimes, mboa and coulve-which I like a lot, fish which I don't like, some chicken stew thing which is pretty good, some skin of some animal which I won't touch.
Speaking of not touching things-I found a kitten last night and I fed it lots of fish. I think it was very happy though it wasn't moving a whole lot this morning. I think I may have over fed it. It is crawling with fleas-oh yeah mom can you send me a few dog flea collars, cat flea collars and I was also thinking about those things you put in the nape of the animals neck that liquid stuff. Don't worry about when you send it, I just figure with some package taht you will send. Dogs are a great thing to have to protect the house-when they decide to stay around and not pasear--which means to walk around, cats are good for the little rodents that seem to be everywhere. I wanted a monkey but that is against peace corps policy. I want to give the kitten a bath but my family insists that when you bathe an animal it dies. I am not quite sure why-but I will let them have their beliefs.
WEll thats all for now, oh yeah I will not be writing anything more for about 2 1/2 weeks. Next weekend we are celebrating thanksgiving, and the following weekend will be the last with our host families. We leave around the 9th or 10th for Maputo and we will be staying in a luxurious hotel for 4 nights. Air conditioning and running water I couldn''t ask for more. WE will be swearing in some day I think the 13th at the ambassadors house which I hear is nice, with swimming pool. So we get it made for a few days and then we're off on our own.
Anyhow I will send emails out in a few weeks. I hope all is well in everyones life. Oh- I want to say that if there is anyone out there that is still puffing on cigarettes-Quit please. Lung cancer sucks and I'd like all to be around when I get home in two years!
Ok, thats my advice for now,
I miss you all and love you guys lots,
Shells xoxoxoxoxoxo
Hey everyone~
I have had a smile plastered across my face for the last 40 minutes reading all of my emails. It sounds like everyone is doing great. Well this week has flew by and I have taught my first lesson. It was only for 20 minutes but I think I did really well. I have to teach everyday for 45 minutes for the next 2 weeks. I am scared but I figure I have been able to do it once I can do it a few more times. Its just scary because you have people watching you, if it were just the students it would be ok. So my language skills are slowly coming along, I am conversing more and more with my family and it is really amazing. Oh, I made pizza last sunday for them over charcoal and it came out awesome, I did burn the first one but otherwise it was great. I think my family really liked it, though I am not making it anymore because it was really expensive. I am goign to stick to mashed potatoes which I am goign to make tomorrow.
So in about 4 weeks we swear in. This sounds so exciting. We have this huge party with our families and then we leave and go to Maputo where we will stay for 4 nights at the hotel and be living the good life until we have to leave for our sites. WE find out what sites we will be going to the first week of december. I can not wait until then.
I put together this picture wall in Casa Grande (this is a place that is huge and has our library and also has air) it was from the first few days in Mozambique, wow was it interesting to look at. I remember all the anticipation and having no clue what I was getting myself into. It is really fun to look back. Also I am figuring out how to get things done here. I had to write up a little petition and have people sign it so that us females could get something that was supposed to be supplied but our wonderful medical officer keeps telling us no. So we went over him to our country director.
For some reason I love doing things like that, or at least getting things done. I would say in a timely matter but here nothing is in what we would consider a timely manner.
This past week it has been raining quite a bit. I woke up in the middle of the night when the rain started and I couldn't sleep because it was really loud on our tin roof. Yes our roof is tin. I actually had to put the pillow over my head, oh yeah mom you could send me my ear plugs-they are in my jewelry box or in my nightstand. You have to love moms that ship you tons of things including food to Mozambique. Well I lover her regardless of the awesome goodies.
So christmas is right around the corner, how weird. We are having a thanksgiving celebration in 2 weeks and then I guess for christmas we all go to the beach or something like that. Going to the beach for christmas-I would have never thought. Its exciting and knowing that next christmas I am goign to visit home and be able to see the snow that I dislike.
Anyway my diet here is still of beans and rice and my family keeps telling me how they want to be fat, I am like no you don't. Wow is it different than the US. I guess the families judge how their volunteers are doing by how much weight they have gained! With that note I am going to close this email.
So everyone have a good week and I will email you again next week
Love you all and miss you,
Shells xoxoxoxo
I have had a smile plastered across my face for the last 40 minutes reading all of my emails. It sounds like everyone is doing great. Well this week has flew by and I have taught my first lesson. It was only for 20 minutes but I think I did really well. I have to teach everyday for 45 minutes for the next 2 weeks. I am scared but I figure I have been able to do it once I can do it a few more times. Its just scary because you have people watching you, if it were just the students it would be ok. So my language skills are slowly coming along, I am conversing more and more with my family and it is really amazing. Oh, I made pizza last sunday for them over charcoal and it came out awesome, I did burn the first one but otherwise it was great. I think my family really liked it, though I am not making it anymore because it was really expensive. I am goign to stick to mashed potatoes which I am goign to make tomorrow.
So in about 4 weeks we swear in. This sounds so exciting. We have this huge party with our families and then we leave and go to Maputo where we will stay for 4 nights at the hotel and be living the good life until we have to leave for our sites. WE find out what sites we will be going to the first week of december. I can not wait until then.
I put together this picture wall in Casa Grande (this is a place that is huge and has our library and also has air) it was from the first few days in Mozambique, wow was it interesting to look at. I remember all the anticipation and having no clue what I was getting myself into. It is really fun to look back. Also I am figuring out how to get things done here. I had to write up a little petition and have people sign it so that us females could get something that was supposed to be supplied but our wonderful medical officer keeps telling us no. So we went over him to our country director.
For some reason I love doing things like that, or at least getting things done. I would say in a timely matter but here nothing is in what we would consider a timely manner.
This past week it has been raining quite a bit. I woke up in the middle of the night when the rain started and I couldn't sleep because it was really loud on our tin roof. Yes our roof is tin. I actually had to put the pillow over my head, oh yeah mom you could send me my ear plugs-they are in my jewelry box or in my nightstand. You have to love moms that ship you tons of things including food to Mozambique. Well I lover her regardless of the awesome goodies.
So christmas is right around the corner, how weird. We are having a thanksgiving celebration in 2 weeks and then I guess for christmas we all go to the beach or something like that. Going to the beach for christmas-I would have never thought. Its exciting and knowing that next christmas I am goign to visit home and be able to see the snow that I dislike.
Anyway my diet here is still of beans and rice and my family keeps telling me how they want to be fat, I am like no you don't. Wow is it different than the US. I guess the families judge how their volunteers are doing by how much weight they have gained! With that note I am going to close this email.
So everyone have a good week and I will email you again next week
Love you all and miss you,
Shells xoxoxoxo
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