My New Blog!

Dear friends and people I've never met in my life - welcome to my new blog! Well, today is Friday, it's 11am and snowing outside. Winter is, supposedly, almost over, but Peace Corps volunteers from my group are dropping like flies. We lost two during pre-service training, two a month after we swore in, and now it seems that two more are going home. I also have a list of about five people in my head that will most likely follow soon after. These are probably the people that never quite mastered the bucket-bath and, therefore, were always feeling dirty and unhappy. As long as I can be clean I will be somewhat satisfied. It's really, really cold today. So much for this "childare" business. Everyone was saying that there were only forty days of purgatory-like winter left. Strangely enough, the childare was more like spring and, now that it's over, winter appears to be starting. This is the backwardness that is my life - it's cold when it should be nice, the post office is closed when it should be open, the electricity is off when it should be on, etc. Aside from this, I've been really busy lately, teaching classes and working with clubs. So far I have two regular English clubs, one dance/American music club, movie club, and, of course, basketball club. My basketball skills have recently been discovered and, I think, are and will forever only be appreciated in Central Asia where most people are shorter than me. As for my host-family, my host-mom, a former geography teacher at our school, just adopted a baby boy, so she quit working and now we bond over discussions about which class we dislike the most. The general consensus is 10B. Last night an argument almost erupted as we sorted the rice for plov (eye-destroying work, let me tell you) over who disliked teaching 10B more. I think I probably win - those kids give me a headache. In other exciting news from my life, I just finished reading Lonesome Dove which turned out to be an excellent book. Also, Schindler's List is amazing if you can get your hands on it. Clone is ending this week and we are all chewing our fingernails, trying to figure out what Latin-American program will be dubbed into Russian next. I hope it's something steamy and involving men named Diego and Paco. I can't wait to visit Spain this summer! Well, that's about it for news from Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan. Hopefully my next entry will be more interesting - I will actively look for adventures, just so I have something funny to write about. Bye for now.