July 6, 2013
There is nothing like spending your country's Independence Day abroad to remind you that in fact you are not in your home country. Since we received a friendly reminder from the PC office that we really, truly should not be leaving site for the first three months none of us made any plans to take off work for the Fourth of July to meet up with our other volunteer friends at beach for some fun in the sun; instead we waited until Friday to leave and headed off to the lovely Coclé province to our fave spot of Santa Clara to enjoy some American past times and celebrate our nation's birthday. Even though I couldn't be with my fellow gringo's on this day I did get to appreciate a lovely (though short) firework display in the provincial capitol, thanks to some enthusiastic Ex-Pat's. It is coming up on six months in site and the time has literally flown by, I can't believe I have been here for nearly half a year....strange.
The home sickness comes and goes, but for the most part I am too distracted to miss home; although I have been having dreams about certain restaurants from home... probably because my body is craving anything that isn't beans and rice or deep fried and over salted. MAN JUST GIVE ME SOME RAW VEGGIES PLEASEEEE. Of course I miss my friend's and family too but I can talk to them nearly any time I want but what I can't do is tell my host family to stop feeding me so that I just make a salad or something, I mean I don't want to be rude or anything. I will just continue to count down the days until I get to move in to my own house and can live off of carrots and cucumbers for the next two years. I just have a few more weeks to go before I get to move in but honestly it can't come soon enough, I ran out of hot sauce so I have been trying to gag down the spam with as much lemon juice as I can without using up all the lemons on the lemon tree, it actually isn't so bad that way but I'd still rather eat anything else in the world than eat another piece of fried spam.
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