One year as an official Peace Corps volunteer down and one to go…or as the medical staff here informed us, 10 months until we come back for our end of service medical check ups and then we can go home. It is a strange thought to think that we now have less left to our service than we have already served. We are over the hump. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, especially when the bands are practicing outside our windows and the sound is nearly unbearable and I think “I won’t be here for this next year.”, or when I am walking home from school in the rain cursing the fact that “the rainy season” is in no way a misnomer of any kind and that from April until October there is a very good chance of rain everyday.
To make this one year mark official we of course had a meeting at the PC office known here as our Midservice Conference. Since we would be there for a few days, we took the opportunity to visit Lizzy’s host family. It was amazing to us just how much the town of San Bartolo had changed in the course of one year. Unfortunately the bakery that we frequented when Liz was living there had closed down and moved and in its place was yet another fried chicken place. Fortunately however, Don Caesar had not changed at all and was every bit as hospitable and warm as he had been when Liz was living at his home.
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| Don Caesar with Lizzy in the garden |
In addition to the meetings we also had our medical appointments to make sure we could remain here working. This left us a lot of down time in between appointments and we finally hiked up to the cross on the hill above Antigua. It was short and very beautiful. We treated ourselves to lunch at Sabe Rico, one of the few organic café style eating establishments we have found that we actually like. In addition, we got to hang out with friends from our training group and catch up on what had been going on in the last few months since our last meeting. It was a nice couple of days. Here’s to one more year!!
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| At the Cross above Antigua |
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| The view from our table at Sabe Rico |
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| My awesome pasta dish complete with a green salad and whole wheat bread...where am I? |
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| Pizza with friends |
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| Hanging out by the Merced |
1 comment:
I have not been to San Bartolo since Reconnect...oops, long time. Anyway when I was there I was wow this has changed (I think also my perception of things changed as well). But I was all excited to get a fatty pineapple filled baked good, only to be disappointing that there were a fried chicken place there instead! I liked that that was your big observation as well...sad day.
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