Randomness from July 23rd

Sorry if I mention things multiple times, because I write my blogs throughout the week and post on weekends, I never know what I’ve mentioned and what I have haven’t.

On my first Sunday in Butajira, I went for a walk with Kat and Joel. Both of them are my neighbors and we are the only three who live in Kebele 2 (which is alike a small community). On this walk, Joel decided he wanted to see the river. So off we went to find the river, which wasn’t an easy task. Off we started down this….let’s call it a mountain, because that is what it felt like. It was steep at times, wet, muddy, and rocky. Joel is the adventurous one and like flew down it seemed. Kat and I took our time and didn’t even go all the way down. We did make it about ¾ of the way. We had help from, I think Kat’s brother and friend, they stuck with Kat and me to make sure we didn’t fall or anything. After climbing back out of the gorge we headed to town. On our walk we ran into a few friends, which was nice to know we were closer than we thought. So back to our walk through town, Joel stops and talks to everyone it seems like. While he stops, Kat and I continue walking. We were ahead of Joel and some neighborhood boys, when a cow turns toward me and takes a few steps. It scared the crap out of me. I jumped got away as quick as possible, while everyone laughed at me, including myself. So since that experience I have been hesitant of cows. It’s hard to avoid livestock in general because they roam free and are everywhere, cows, chickens, sheep, goat, donkeys, okay I think that’s it for now.

I haven’t been feeling to well the last two days. I’ve had a scratchy throat and a runny nose. It just ruins my whole mood though, because all I want to do is crawl in bed and watch movies. However I have a strict schedule and the rain hasn’t helped. It’s rained off and on for two days now.

I start teaching practicum tomorrow. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I co-teach, then next week I’m on my own. I’m a little nervous but excited. I’m co-teaching 8^th grade three times this week, 7^th grade twice and 3^rd grade once. From what I understand of what  a PCVL (Peace Corps Volunteer Leader) on the ED. Team told me, next week I’ll teach all grades (3-8). There’s a great group of PCVL’s who are on training us.