I have found a holiday i like better than christmas...well i don't like christmas too much so i guess it's not hard to do! I have properly named this new holiday "A COS christmas" (COS=close of service). Don't get me wrong, i really do miss the volunteers who left, but getting first crack at their stuff is awesome,especially since i am more or less the same size as two of the girls who left. My wardrobe has been replenished, i got new pots and pans and great leftover american food products. The one downfall to my new holiday is that with the influx of new clothes, i neglected washing my old ones; i mean why wash clothes when there are clean ones around. So now i am getting a little low and fear that it will now take more than 1 or 2 days to wash everything...is it wasteful just to throw all dirty clothes away and buy new ones???
The rainy season has officially begun. I forgot how beautiful this island is when it turns green. It is hard for me to believe it is the same place and not some exotic hawaiian rain forest island. I took a drive around the island saturday (no i was not the one driving) and tried to remember what it looked like just two months before; brown and dry. The rain seems to be constant this year and everyone thinks this will be a good agricultural year. Good news in a world where the price of grains has skyrocketed and another hit to Cape Verdean corn could be disaster. The one downfall to rain (well this may just be me talking) is that now instead of just being hot, it is humid. I think everyone knows how i feel about heat...we are not friends.
In other news, I think festa season is finally over. After the two dispididas and last weekends municipal festival in Mosteiros, I haven't spent too much time in my own town and i think i am just about danced out. I look forward to spending the next few weekends relaxing.
By the way, they never shut down the airport...the new news is there is no exact date for closure so it might be just in time for the newbies, who swear in mid-September, to get to take the boat. but who knows, maybe it will never close!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Pictures from the despidida.
So Mel and Sam have gone, but not before they had one awesome going away party! We got there at 8pm and went home at 3:30 a.m.! Things that made the party great:
1)Katxupa (the food, not my dog)
2)Katxupa de Texas (Mel made chili and this is the only way to explain what it is to cape verdeans)
3)Free wine!!!
4) The 7 times we heard the song "poi mao na txan".
5) Madonna
6) Tuka's poem for Mel and Sam
7) Cutting a rug
8) Watching Franki dance.
Here are some pics from the night of fun! They are a little out of order but you should be able to tell where in the night things belong...the later it is, the bigger my smile is (this might have something to do with the wine) and the redder Mel's eyes get (not from the wine, but instead from crying...)
1)Katxupa (the food, not my dog)
2)Katxupa de Texas (Mel made chili and this is the only way to explain what it is to cape verdeans)
3)Free wine!!!
4) The 7 times we heard the song "poi mao na txan".
5) Madonna
6) Tuka's poem for Mel and Sam
7) Cutting a rug
8) Watching Franki dance.
Here are some pics from the night of fun! They are a little out of order but you should be able to tell where in the night things belong...the later it is, the bigger my smile is (this might have something to do with the wine) and the redder Mel's eyes get (not from the wine, but instead from crying...)
I am pretty sure that Madona is playing right now!
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