Well, I made it back safely. No harm, no foul. It wasn't that amazing, honestly. The lecture from the professor at the University was nice; he showed us native trees and told us about them. But the four hours we'd spent on Friday were effectively covered by him Saturday, so it felt a bit inefficient. Overall, I think this week was a little off with training, and my own motivation to study Spanish. I've been talking with my family everyday, but after Training I wouldn't be formally studying on my own. I need to improve that, which was why I started studying out of the 501 Spanish Verbs dictionary Friday night. Today, I'll be doing a batch of either pizza crust or bread, haven't quite decided yet. I want to practice before making the actual pizza. That would be because the ingredients are incredibly expensive given my "salary". They give us enough to get to training, and to buy a meal or two for ourselves. Buying the yeast, one small ball of mozzarella, small bag of cheap tomato sauce, a pineapple, and mushrooms was half of my money for this week. Thankfully, I had only spent a sole or two out of my first weeks money so I had it to use. I do have dollars I could use but I'm trying really hard not to. I'm not making money here, so I shouldn't be spending more than they give me in allowance. You might think it weird that I bought mushrooms and a pineapple, but my family said they wanted a Hawaiian style, and I'm going to make them provide the ham. For the mushrooms, I'm not sure what I'll put on that pizza, but I don't know if I'll have enough tomato sauce. Maybe they'll provide another ingredient for that one and more tomato sauce. We'll see. Either way, I'm excited to make some bread. You guys should email me some bread recipes or ideas. Like making a cinnamon roll or something. Has to be pretty simple though, no fancy ingredients. If it has rice, potatoes, and chicken it will go over very well with my family, but I'd perhaps like a novel version or combination. We also have a lot of carrots, green beans, Greek olives, eggs, strange fruits, and avocado.
Things on my mind:
1. I need to study Spanish vocab. or grammar more, or review my notes.
2. I'd like to solicit ideas about a self-defense class (from any readers of this, if you exist). My fellow Peace Corps people have settled on Belly dancing Monday, Yoga Tuesday, and Power Yoga Thursday. A couple people have expressed interest in a self-defense class, but I'm not sure I want to try.
3. How do I get these blogs onto the Internet safely?
Well, that's all for now, I suppose.
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