Wars, Vampires and everything in between

Oi, Nhos, tudo dreto???

Things have been pretty calm lately and with only about 4 months left to go i am just living life and trying to enjoy everything!!!!! Here are a few more things that have been happening.

We had the 2nd annual women's day event in march. Again, the turnout was great, over 200 women from the island. We had been having some issues raising money this year though so Sarah, Andrea and I were far from calm the weeks before the event. Everything turned out ok, except for a crappy microphone problem. Last year we held the event in a zone with no electricity and had to arrange a generator so we could have amplification. WEll that generator failed about 1/4 of the way through the programming. SOOOOOO, this year, we hold the event in a site with electricity so we don't have to deal with that crap and guess what happens....the night before we are getting things ready in the community center and someone informs us that on the following day, the day of our event, the day we need lights, the county is trimming trees and will be cutting the power so they can go about doing this safely. OF FREAKIN COURSE! So we rush around, secure a generator for the next day and think everything will be ok. what happens, the generator comes but with no gas. We have to delay the start of the event. Gas arrives. the microphone goes out during the opening statements of the first guest speaker. OF FREAKIN COURSE.

Both of the toenails are completely off now and look a lot better than when the nail was just flapping around. Only problem is that now i am a little worried that there is one more that will go before this ordeal is over. Word to the wise, don't hike in shoes that are too big.

It has been windy as hell on the volcano. When i first moved up there i asked someone why they don't grow the wine grapes like the vineyards in the states and they told me because the wind is too bad, it would ruin the plants. at that time i thought they were exagerating, but the month of march and even still, i feel like sometimes the wind will blow the house away (and it's made of solid cement!)

After 3 months i FINALLY finished WAR AND PEACE. Really a great book, but hard to stay with for 1, 389 pages. I had to take breaks and read books in between that had nothing to do with dead people in russia. So what did i read...the TWIGHLIGHT series. I know, i know it is terrible. the writing is terrible and the books are written for 13 year old girls, but i LOVED them (and may i say i am not the only Peace Corps Cape Verde volunteer addictied). As soon as i would get a new book i would finish it in about 6 hours. I know the movies are being made so i might be having to see those when i get back to the states! (don't worry, i am embarrassed for myself!)

That's about it for now, the municipal festa of Sao Filipe starts in about 2 weeks so that means lots of parties....people like to celebrate here and I have no problems joining in!!