November 26, 2008

I am completely exhausted. Every muscle in my body aches. Even my bones ache. I would kill for a hot bath and a massage. Here is why:

Over the weekend one of my volunteer friends wanted to start painting her apartment. Being the wonderful person that I am ;-) I agreed to help her. 7 hour on Saturday and 6 on Sunday. That’s love! We got a lot done, but I was so tired on Saturday that I decided to bail on my friends who were planning to go dancing. I really wanted to go out, but I was so physically exhausted that I knew I would be 0 fun. Oh… and then on Sunday night the neighbors BLASTED their music until after midnight. I was seriously in tears!

Monday my Peace Corps boss came to check in on us volunteers and approve our housing. She didn’t have very much time; just long enough to peak into the library, approve my house (YAY!!!!!!!!!!!), and take me and another volunteer out for an amazing seafood dinner. It was really great to see her.

So since my house has officially been Okayed, I started to fix it up Tuesday morning. I got there at 9:30 in the morning and didn’t stop until about the same time at night. In the afternoon the same volunteer I helped out stopped by and eventually a group of children discovered where I was living and piled into the house to ‘help’ and hang out. I seriously blinked and my house was suddenly filled with about 10 children. I really hope this is not a sign to come. I would love visitors, but no more than a few at a time. Oh… and not in my room. I girl has to have some privacy!

Today I spent tutoring English, aching all over, and continuing to fix up my place. I am almost done painting it all. Now I just have to scrub/bleach/disinfect EVERYTHING!! Tomorrow I plan on going to the mall and buying just about every disinfected that I can get my hands on. I also need to wash my clothes… God I hurt so much!

Oh… and Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I decided to skip Thanksgiving this year on the basis that I will not be eating my mother’s turkey stuffing—which is the best stuffing EVER—so why even bother celebrating at all? I am fine with it. Thanksgiving has never been a very important holiday to my family. After all, I did spend the last four Thanksgivings working. I did have the opportunity to go to Quito to eat dinner with an embassy family, but Quito is so far away and I am currently concentrating all my energies on fixing up my new home. My goal is to officially move in on Saturday. At this rate, I will make it… but what condition will my body be in?