I'm assuming that from the picture you all probably wouldn't guess that, as of late, things have been going swimmingly. That's because the picture is really bad. But we took it on a day when Julia was stuck in bed with the flu and directly after I had, against my better judgment, just eaten half a jar of peanut butter and was consequently not feeling particularly spry.
In any case, things are pretty good. Apparently all we had to do to solve the problem of not having very much to do was whine about it on panablog a li'l bit. Over the course of the last couple of months our calendar has filled up a bit, which has left us ever so content. We teach English at the school in our community Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then at the school in a relatively close community (an hour's walk away) on Wednesdays, and at a school in a relatively far community (about two hours away) on Mondays. The arrangement at the last school is under review because 1.) when we show up at the school we are at least drenched in sweat and covered in mud, and often soaked with rain, which means we probably aren't making the greatest impression, and 2.) we only teach an hour long session each week, so the walking to teaching ratio is about 4:1. Not strong.
Anydoodle, we are also doodling around with the prospect of teaching "Informatica" classes in our community because they just got new computers. Which is great. What's not great is that there are only two computers, and there are 175 kids in the elementary school, and since there isn't electricity the computers have to run off of a gas-generator, and making sure we have gas to run the thing is an incertain proposition.
In any case, next time we visit the ¨Month X: Complete¨...the one year mark will be behind us. That will be a nice milestone to have hit.
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