Accidental Bucket Bath Baptism

Excuse my delay in correspondence, but the first three days of my life as a Guatemalteca have been a bit hectic! I've spent days between long training, medical, safety orientation at the Center and conversations, lunches, dinners with my host family here in a village located nearby Gringo hotspot Antigua... Although I haven't had much time to explore, life in this village is quite simple, nice and well, slow... The people are very religious and oober conservative, which really doesn't seem to bother me despite my obvious liberal undertones (ie/ flipflops are prohibited and looked down upon!!) my host family here is very nice, and it seems as if the Dona is the ring leader of the local church community, as both my roomate, Andrea, and I got to experience a procession of Santa Lucia right in the living room... pretty intense might I say... I don't have much time to write much else, I have 6 mns. left, but I am moving out to another village today where I will be staying with a permanent family within the next three months... Played alot of soccer last night, and took a very cold bucket bath on my very first day here, although it turns out that the shower actually works and that I just didn't know how to use it (thus the title of this entry).... Life is good, stoked for the future.

Saludos

BLUE MOONING BUS RIDIN NY´QUILLs

What do I feel like right now?  everyone wonders… Well, not scared, not different, or nervous really.  I feel as if time has finally enabled me to take control of my life and as if every minute event of my life up to this point has senselessly led me up to this.  So maybe its the Nyquil, few Blue moons combined with a bumpy bus trip across the state of new york with a handful of annoyingly testaroned `like` foulmouthed teenagers (2AM still in buffalo… obviously my lack of patience right now might get me in trouble)  Well at least I have music and a good last few days spent with la sagrada familia.  I`m not sure I know what it`s like to be homesick since home`s not really part of  my lingo, but ill sure miss those douches, the only ones that really get me.  Love u all, you know who you are. 

And for those who wonder what I will be doing, I won`t write about that now, because it really would be a preemptive guess wouldn’t it…

Now that I think about it, this is sort of a pointless entry…. Apologies might be necessary for taking up your brain`s reading log capacity.

Hasta Guatemala chiquitos

words of wisdom and boredom

It's 4:43 pm and I have officially 17 minutes to make my first entry intriguing... While I am two weeks away from expecting the unexpected in Guatemala, I am still conveniently sitting in my chair, at work, blogging about things I'm not supposed to be doing at work... So I'll make this my farewell entry: Saludos a mis amigos, local politics, TA (our next mayor), my colleagues, 95 maple, upstate, Astoria, Greece, annoying cell phone talkers on the bus (seriously can someone illegalize that before I get back from Peace Corps??), alcohol, dog poop, montreal, buffalo, my clothes, my life.

And to NYC, I have this for you: NY I love you, but you're bringing me down (tagline stolen from an awesome local band) now on to bigger and better things of self reflection, understanding humanity, helping those who could never afford those annoying iphones, to amebas, learning an indigeneous language and new adventures.

That's all for now, until my departure, you can find me floating on a castle of clouds between dimensions of the twilight zone!

More details to come sooN!

Cheers!