Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Cumberland blues.

So yes here I am again...let me start off by saying.i luv you.ahhh that felt great.So the last couple months have found me wandering around Madland.Yeah so after the bike trip me and a good friend, Esther, went down to my site.Yeah she took the three-day trek with me.Wasn't impressed.no surprise there, meaning strictly the longness of it.but the beauty you know i take it in everytime I go down there so.But we hung in my village met up with Brian and Abe, banking town buddies (we have a banking town where we go in to get money and for me and Alison, buy food and everything else we just might need). There were good times had by all. It was great to back in my village after being gone for 6 weeks even though it would be short. But I felt the love of my village when I got there and it was a great feeling to be back home. We headed back to the capital after a week and decided to take the train from Manakara a city about 130km north of me to Fianara me regional capital. It was a beautiful and relaxing trip.We are considering it whenever we have to head in that direction.Got to Tana after a hop skip and a jump in a taxi brousse. I went to train the newbies. Showed them how to make a mud-stove (i've been specializing in them lately) and was just there for support and whatnot...it was a great trip back to the training site (got to the dogs). After training, I went out to the East coast to visit some Business Volunteers .Ryan, Julie and Vickie. and make the mudstoves at their sites. It is so beautiful out there and it was a great and productive trip. Everyone was very interested and motivated to watch the demonstration to the point that some of the women in Julie's site went off and made another one after we made our first one.It was great.Me and Jules sang with some kids a song about nutrition and washing your hands.it was an overall great trip and a needed escape for me.But so now here I am in the capital.We have these Volunteer houses in some of the regions here and there is one in the capital that we can stay at fully furnished and equipped with lots of good stuff, including wifi. However, the house in the capital is closing meaning that this is prolly my last time staying here and I may not have internet access for quite awhile. There is internet is my banking town but it's unreliable, slow and a little spending.So yeah I may not be back on the internet for some time.But know I luv and miss you and all and sorry this is a mess.take care and keep sending the luv.Cheers!