The new volunteers have arrived! We're going to have another great group of volunteers this year. It's fun to see them excited about serving here and embracing their new life in Belize. It's been enjoyable watching them their first week and remembering how I felt three years ago when I first arrived.
I returned to Benque to find out the stores no longer sell Coke Light!!! I couldn't believe it! But, since I was trying to kick the habit anyway, I figured this is God's way of just helping me out. On an airport run to Belize City I did see it's still for sale there, so I'm guessing I can pick one up here or there when I'm in a bigger area. One of the guys just told me that he found some in one of the obscure little Chinese stores in Benque so today, the feast of the Assumption, when I woke up I thought, "I'm going to that store to see if I can get a Coke Light. Gonna make that happen today!" . . .
I have one of the best roommates and friends anyone could ask for. For those of you who know Jen Hurley you know I'm not exaggerating. This woman has more patience than I could ever even imagine having! She works tirelessly at the clinic all day and sometimes into the night, then she spends the evenings around town visiting her patients, or their families, just being there for them, whatever their ailment, and if they're not sick presently, well then she will still make time to check up on them and make sure they don't need anything! This morning after I declare "I will get a Coke Light today." I open the fridge to get my water bottle and what do I see?
She's so sweet! And then there's the love notes Shelby left for me. Coming home to a dusty house with lots of roach carcasses lying around wasn't so fun, but the notes made it all better! (yes Shelby, they're still up!)
It's avocado season here in Belize! I just love this time of year when we can eat as many avocados as we'd like! Our principal just gave me a grocery bag of these giant ones and I made up a tasty recipe for "Missionary Nachos" (Chips with slices of avocado and salsa on top)
Switched to a different room in the house this year, which means I needed to hang an indoor clothesline, of course. Unfortunately our walls are cement and hanging anything can be tricky. In the other room we used the wooden curtain rods which are larger than normal U.S. size curtain rods. But since there's only one curtain rod in the new room I decided to rig up this:
1"x4" piece of wood = $0 (swiped it from random pile of wood in the teachers' lounge)
U shaped nails = $0 (leftover from repairing the barbwire fence last year)
Clothesline = $1.50
Note: the biggest inconvenience was borrowing a hammer from someone since the male volunteers broke mine last year and never replaced it. I'M TALKING TO YOU, BUTZ.
Our washing machine was stolen! Our wonderful watchdog Belle is a lot less scary now that she's not protecting her puppies! We had 2 washing machines, one with a working washing part and one with a working spinning part. The one with the working spinning part was stolen Tuesday night. I'm very excited to report this because it means WE ARE GETTING A NEW WASHING MACHINE! yes, I'll only be here 6 more weeks, but I'm excited for the other volunteers' sake! It will save so much time and energy having it. Thank you Mike and Gaby for leaving/selling it to the high school. They were going to sell it off to someone else, but now that ours was stolen WE GET YOUR NICE ONE!
p.s. yes, yes, yes, we will be locking the gate religiously and double checking all locks on the doors in the house, and training our dog to bark at intruders!
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