I know I have been bad at keeping this thing updated lately. It just seems that the time keeps flying by and I barely have time for myself...let alone time to think up a story to type on my blog. So first off i just want to apologize. SORRY!! I know a lot of you read this and you like to hear updates in my life, so let me see if I can recap and fill you in....
Let me reassure you all that things here in The Gambia are going very well. We are just finishing up and rainy season and things are starting to get really hot again! yikes... this is the time of the year when the heat rash and nasty bumps in your skin come out. Wish me luck! If you guys can remember last year I suffered and had nasty worms in my body around this time that tried poking out and gave me hives really bad. This year i am hopeful that my body has been around the block a few times now and nothing major will happen.
Where to start this blog?!....?! Work in my village is going well. It is all starting to wrap up now that my time is almost finished. :) I will finish up everything in my village come December and then move down to the city for a while before coming home finally. My primary project with the borehole in my village just received some great news from an organization in the States that promised they will fund our repairment of the machinery. :) This is VERY exciting! I have been working with them for a while, at first i thought it was a for sure thing, then they backed out... now they have emailed me and promised they are in and promise the completion of the project.!!! :) it is exciting. I don't think I can say "its exciting" as I am. As far as my secondary project with the Junior Achievement program-small enterprise development. 3 of the 10 have already paid back their loans ahead of schedule while 3 other groups I believe will be ready by the time the 6 months is finished. As far as the other 4 groups it seems they are still dinking around and not taking the loan seriously. Unfortunately for them it is going to be very hard for them later. Their loan repayments are due in December... so once those are in, that is when i am going to end my service at my site. YAY!!!!!
Lately I have been keeping busy replacing myself with another volunteer. Peace Corps put an education volunteer at my site. She came in the middle of September, her name is Eileen from Washington DC. she is positive and all around pretty awesome, so I have enjoyed hanging out with her. Once I leave she will be in my village til June 2011 and then she will head back to the States. Her primary focus is on Early Childhood Development so, it has been interesting to show her around, introduce her to great people in the village and gain a friend.
I think that is about it for site.......... honestly, since my time is almost finished there, I spend most days just hanging out with families that I have really enjoyed over my 2 years there. I am really going to miss that place once I leave... but since work and everything is still going at full speed, its keeping my mind off of leaving just yet.
I am in town this week because I have my COS conference! COS (close of service) it basically means that I am a bad ass and the light at the end of my amazing journey here is in reach. This week I hope to create some great memories with people from my group, laugh and learn how to perfect my resume, that way when i move back to the States I can get a good job. hire me! I love how this picture captures every ones dream..... to be hired with an amazing job. I thought the picture was funny. I am hoping to work in Seattle when I get back for an organization that works in or for developing countries doing human resources or PR.... that's my dream anyway. And I am going to chase that dream till I get it.
I should get going, I will try to blog again throughout the week since I am in town.
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