Site Visits and More!!!

Ola as pessoas festas! Not sure if that translates right but what I want to say is, "Hello party people!" I am finishing up my 6th week of training...4 more to go! Time is flying by now. I haven't been up to too much. Still working on my Portuguese and lesson planning. Last Saturday I had a cooking day with my mae. It was great! She makes some really good dishes! Cooking takes all day...literally. We started to make lunch around 10am and finished it at about 12:30pm. Then we did dishes and chatted for a bit then started on dinner around 3pm. We finally sat down to eat around 7:30pm. It was exhausting. The women here are super hard workers. They go nonstop all day long. It is exhausting to watch. During our relaxing time after lunch we sat out on the veranda with my mae's brother, Castro. He is my English buddy and I really enjoy hanging out with him. We were watching kids play and called some of them over. They were pulling each other on a water jug. I wanted to give it a whirl, thinking there was no way they were going to be strong enough to drag me. Boy was I wrong! We got pics and videos so I will upload them when I can. I did laundry last weekend too. One of my least favorite activities. It is a workout!

Sunday we all left for site visits. I went to Inharrime, Inhambane with a colleague. We had met the volunteer there 2 weeks ago when she came to help out with training. I had a blast getting to see what a site is like. We interacted with the locals, helped proctor exams at the secondary school, played pool with some locals, ate some delicious food, cooked breakfast for dinner, ate mangoes right from the tree, almost got eaten by a spider, etc. etc. etc. It was a great time and it got me excited. The trip also made me realize how much I have to learn in Portuguese, but my hopes are high for being pretty fluent by the end of my two years.

Other than that, not much is going on. Check out my other pages for updates. I usually update them a little more frequently than my actual posts. Thanks for all your support!