February

Has been pretty busy. I'm starting to really like it here and I'm starting to make friends. I'm trying to study at least thirty minutes to an hour of Portuguese per day. I'm really eager to learn and speak really well. Vacation to Brazil someday? I think so! Work is getting better. A few weeks ago I had a meeting with ICAP to check up on how our work's coming along. We kind of re-defined my job and they said I can get off earlier because they understand that PCVs are supposed to be flexible to work in the whole community, not just for our assigned organization.

Yesterday my PC supervisor came for a visit. Just came to check on my house and see how I'm feeling about work. It went really well. I mentioned to her that I still don't know all of my neighbors really well. So later in the evening, my neighbor whose about my age told me that my supervisor told her it'd be nice if she could introduce me to some people. So, one after another, she had about 5 of our neighbors come over and we all sat outside under our tree and ate together as well. Also, yesterday my carpenter came by and I gave him a drawing of the kitchen counter I want him to make. Furnishing my house is really expensive, but it's really worth it. I was going to have him build a dresser since I was tired of living out of my suitcase since I got to Moz. But instead, in one corner of my room, I put four rows of nails on each wall and connected them with rope and I hang my clothes like that. It works pretty well and they're sturdy. There's no way my clothes from back home could fit on there though!

I'm running out of things to say I'm not sure what to write about. Any suggestions? It's getting late, gotta go get a chapa! Tchau!