Just been having fun. I spend a lot of preparing for my English Club. I have two. The days I’m not teaching, I’m banging my head against the wall trying to create a kick ass lesson plan to reach and educate the students. Since I have a projector and no black board I use power point to facilitate the teaching. On a side note, I’m kinda seeing a girl. I don’t know where it’s going but we enjoy our company. I got picked to be part of the Peace Corps Media Committee. I don’t know how I feel about that. Sure, I like to make short films but to add this to my present work isn’t cause for champagne poppin’.

Oh, and here are random shots around where I reside.

I just got earrings. My friend Juan inspired me to do it. When we were on the Morondava Trip Juan was always saying, “Hey like, let’s get our ears pierced.” We didn’t on that trip, but I did after. One of my region-mates pierced them. I’m so happy cause I’ve always wanted to do this. The first few days I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror: strange, don’t know why.

It’s time to go back to the training site near the capital. This is our Mid-Service Training. I’ll see all my stage mates for the first time in 10 months. I’m excited, but not excited to see ALL of them. But even so, we are a family, Ohana, as we call ourselves.

Now I’m in Tana, the capital, staying at the Underground Hostel. There are travelers from all over. I’ve been smoking and not drinking for about 25 days. It’s going good. As I write on the 2nd floor just below US embassy workers on a happy hour drink, are talking about world events and politics. It’s a beautiful night. After staying at the Underground I went to stay at the Meva. Some of my friends were there. Me, Kamaka and Edgar were there to attend the Media Workshop Committee. I wasn’t expecting anything extraordinary from this meeting, but I was wrong. We were busy from Monday to Friday. On Tuesday we were tasked to write an article telling the story of a staff member working at the Peace Corps office with accompanying photos. This was a challenge that forced us to collaborate. On Wednesday we went to a theater company and in groups filmed and edited a small documentary about the company. We sat through sessions and produced something. We are thrilled!