Tuesday, June 10, 2008

After IST

I just finished up my in-service training, which was some technical training mixed in with feedback from my fellow volunteers on how things have been going in the village. I have not done my cook stoves as of yet, we'll actually be doing those in my village tomorrow or the next day. I did not get a chance to go to my friend's village as a result of eating some bad food, and getting diagnosed with amoebas and bacteria the day I was supposed to leave for his village. No worries though, i took some strong medicine, and it cleared up in about a week. I was also intending on buying a cow, but the night before my market day the rains finally came to my village. So the next morning all the men (and me) were out in the fields planting millet, which meant i had to wait for a later date to buy my cow. It's still ridiculously hot here, but it's exciting to see rain on the ground. I've also just finished writing up my first proposal, which is for a fence for my school garden, and fencing for a nursery i want to start in the school yard. I'm also in the midst of trying to get a hold of the radio station guy near my village, and on in the regional capital, but like everything else here, things take time, and a person must have patience-kala suuru.