Busy work

It’s taking me a lot of effort to try and be legitimately busy lately. I’m looking at my calendar right now and eight out of the last ten scheduled things I had in the past week were cancelled. These include story hours, English/Spanish sessions, youth group meetings, board of directors meetings, and a charla in the health center. None were done at all in advance (save for the lessons, since I make sure to seek out my friend that I have them with in advance), at least not to me, and it’s resulted in each day being different than I had planned. It’s not necessarily a bad or unexpected thing – we were warned about these tendencies since the beginning of training – but it does get occasionally frustrating. While I am enjoying having more down time than ever before in my adult life, it’s hard to not be able to be truly busy when I want to. Even I can only read and write and research (with slow internet) so much each day, especially in Spanish, and I’m trying not to watch too many movies or TV shows I have saved on my computer just yet. Apparently, this will get worse with coffee season approaching and the school year ending.

In unrelated news, I think my family set up some kind of wasp hive not very far from my door outside. Intentionally. It kind of freaks me out, but I haven’t asked exactly what’s going on with it yet. I keep my eye on the baby wasps every time I’m outside now. Also, I now have to check my sneakers for spiders before putting them on. I learned this the hard way. There seem to be more bugs in general around lately, but I’m pretty tough about it now.

Before this gets too negative though, what else can I add? It’s been sunny out lately, so it’s warmer and I’ve been getting lots of laundry done. I usually have lukewarm bucket baths now instead of ice-cold showers. I attended a prayer session thing last week, which made me think a lot about religion and gave me a free snack. I have all the ingredients to make chocolate chip cookies in my possession/in our pulperia, so it’s only a matter of time (which I have plenty of, naturally). My family at home is doing great. This week is our welcome party, for volunteers in the west, just a few towns over. This means we’re all getting together for a feria and I can drink for the first time in over a month. Next week is Matt’s training in nearby Santa Rosa, which means I’ll get to visit a lot of people I haven’t seen in awhile and maybe even get a free meal or two. Then, it’s already November…crazy!