holding on strong

We finished the water committee trainings that were dominating my life for the past three months. I was happy to despedir a Hugo our microbiologist who came up to Carata 3 times but was consistently late and unreliable the whole time. I think the committee learned something from him, but i´m still bitter about the whole thing. The JASS (water committee) got their start up tools and uniforms. We´ll be closing out the grant paperwork and account.


For the last couple of weeks in site I´ll be meeting with them to continue with the annual work plans, writing bylaws, organizing their check book and accounting, making minor repairs, and the monthly fee we´ll charge the families. Thank god I have a replacement volunteer after I leave. There´s still so much to do!!! Development is so frickin´ slow!

I´m holding on strong during these last couple of weeks in site. Since my last post I helped organize another year of field based training for new trainees. This year we went to Julcan and San Augustin in the sierra and Tecapa on the northern coast of La Libertad. It was a productive week. Fortunately I didn´t get sick, like last year. No one wants to remember a viral infection. yuck.

I went back to site after the training for just a day than took off to Lima for med checks. The good news- I´m healthy enough to return to the USA. As long as washington agrees. the bad news- I´ve lost 13 lbs since 2005 and have abnormally high hemoglobin levels since living at such a high altitude. My cells have changed. Weird.



Some of my fellow P6er´s are peace´n out. Like Khaliah. Good luck girl. I´ll miss you. Even though I´ve got a million and 10 things to do this month before I leave, I´m going to appreciate my last month in the Peace Corps because I´ve been blessed with a wonderful site, decent job opportunities, great friends, a caring family, and a reliable staff to support me along the way. This is mypeacecorps. And it´s coming to an end. Whooa. I didn´t think I´d ever be able to say that. Cheers to Carata.