life in Yanacoto:
well, my legs are going to be super strong after walking up the hill to my house for three months, it´s a good 15 min of pretty intense hiking. walking down the hill in the mornings makes my lungs pretty happy b/c of the two stroke mototaxis (3 wheeler taxis that cannot even go as fast as i walk when going up on the steep dirt roads) zooming by. i take a 15 minute custer (small bus) everyday to the training center, which is a luxurious palace rented by peace corps where we have our technical training sessions. so far we have talked about water systems in peru and this week we will be building a latrine for one of my neighbors, who is hosting another volunteer, i am excited about this! so our cuerpo de paz soccer team (equipo gringo, a.k.a. white height) blew away the previous team´s record, we won two games and tied like 5, ¡vaya gringos! it was a blast playing on the concrete basketball court/cancha, although the first game i played i took a pretty bad spill and cut up both hands, then the next game i fell on the way to the game running down my very steep hill in the dark, and fell during the game as well, so now people think me a klutz, whatever. mae, i have been super busy! we have besides 8 hours a day of training, i have been jogging, doing yoga, and playing soccer, and every saturday we go to lima, recently to learn about agriculture here in el peru. unfortunately i had "the bicicleta" once again this last saturday and had to rush back, which you can´t really do b/c it is like an hour 15 to an hour and a half custer ride, which is usually crowded to the point of physically touching your fellow pasajero whether you like it or not, this is the LA way, personal US bubbles pop. so anyway, today i feel better so hopefully i am done with being sick for a while, Ojalá. i had a dream last night that i was about to go to the salad bar at city market and get the biggest salad with every vegetable imaginable and right before i did i was woken by mis padres asking if i felt any better, no, if only i could have eaten it first, it would have been just as good as the real thing b/c my dreams have been really vivid, some think this is because of the "ajinomoto" a.k.a. MSG that goes into every single meal, yep, every one, for flavor, thanks to the chinese influence in the cooking here. i will deal, no pasa nada chicos. anyway, at least when i am really stressed out or feeling lousy i can listen to my fav band at the moment, Built to Spill, on my ipod, this is my best friend right now. well i am gone, ciao y besos a todos.
fletch
p.d. i actually clipped my nails today, meaning i haven´t bitten them since being here, how proud are you mom?