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Published: August 6th 2007
I failed to mention in my last blog about some of the positives of this past weekend. On Friday a good friend of our Sadie (another PC Volunteer in our group) came up to Puyo for a meeting. Sadie lives in a Kichwa community near Tena and she is definitely living the ¨real¨ Peace Corps experience - lives in a thatch roof hut, takes bucket baths, has very little privacy, and lots of little critters running around her hut. It was great to see her and even better to see her in good spirits about her site.
I made dinner for Sadie, Susan, and Katie at our house Friday. I through together a soup, made some fresh biscuits, and made a carrot cake with cream cheese icing for Sue´s birthday. It is amazing what a toaster oven is capable of doing. Katie also brought over a cake that she made in her campo oven. The four of us ate very well to say the least. Then we headed out to have a beer or two.
Sadie spent the night and the next morning I made her breakfast before seeing her off on a bus headed back to Tena. Later that day, Sue and I did some house work. I washed the clothes and Susan swept and mopped the floors in our apartment. When that was done, we ventured into town to check the internet and go to the bank to get some cash. We returned and were relaxing in our apartment - a lazy Saturday afternoon - when we had a knock on the door. One of our neighbours brought us two pieces of cake. The same neighbours who witness my being locked out of the apartment episode. Apparently, it was the birthday of one of their kids and they wanted to share their cake. We now had three types of cake in our apartment - don´t worry - we managed to finish off all three by Sunday morning.
Anyhow, it was a kind gesture by our neighbours and rather interesting timing considering it was just a couple days past Sue´s birthday. So, chalk another one up for these neighbours. First they help me get into my apartment, then they give us cake. If they bring me some beer while Susan is in the States, they will go down as the best neighbours ever. There is a yin and yang influence in this neighbourhood - we have both the greatest neighbours and the aforementioned jerks who live above us. I guess you have to take the bad with the good. I just hope they all see Susan and I as ¨good¨ neighbours.
I miss Susan already and have come to respect my fellow volunteers who serve alone. I could never do Peace Corps Ecuador without her. I promised myself that I would focus on studying Spanish this week while Sue is gone. To that end, yesterday, I studied for about 30 minutes and then got enthralled with some Su Doku puzzles that Sadie left for Susan and I. I did about 6 of them last night - it was more fun than Spanish - and equally as challenging.
Jeremy
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Greg
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Safe and sound
Jeremy, you probably have already heard, but Sue made it safe and sound to Columbus. She came over for some talk and pizza, and I drove her to Chris and Sarah's. They are going to take her to Lima. She left the iPod and cards here, any movies in particular that you want?