PHEWF AC! 5.18.10

I’m back! Thank goodness the office is air conditioned; now I can comfortably type away and think. I don’t know how I am going to withstand the next two years with this melting temp, locals even complain about the weather and it’s only going to get worse!

OH EM GE!

Any who,

Along with this new position, I have a new host family, Aminda (mom), Darwin (dad), 2 teen brothers, and one niece. Last night I had a nice little dinner with them and… watched a movie. What movie you ask? Creiendo en Dios (Believing in God). Aminda asked during dinner what religion I was, I replied, Christian and she said, “Oh, we are Mormon, we have reunions every Monday night, this week we are watching a movie, would you like to join?” After attempting to come up with a quick lie and simply stuttering out some ridiculous excuse (I can’t even remember it was so ridiculous), I soon accepted knowing that my lame excuse was not enough to not participate in the Monday night family activity. Well anywho, I wasn’t really paying attention, I was too distracted from the overwhelming heat and sweat emitting from my body (mind you, we were sitting outside while watching the movie).

Besides the movie, they are really a nice welcoming family! Young couple, Darwin is 25 and Aminda is about 28 I believe, they seem like cool hip Mormons. Aminda was telling me how much she liked raeggaeton and liked dancing then she invited me to a dance this Friday…of course I accepted!!! How could I pass this opportunity up, I love dancing! Woohhooo!!! I think this will be the first time I am out passed 9:30 p.m. woohoo!!! I’ll let you know how it goes though, don’t want to set any high expectations. I hope it’s not a Mormon band or something like that. For the record these are the first Mormon people I have interacted with, I didn’t know what to expect, but they seem like very nice people. I was also invited to attend church with them on Sunday, and as much as I wanted to say no I couldn’t help but accept the invitation. : ( ugh! I kind of felt obligated. I mean how would it look that I accepted an invitation for a dance but not church? … Let you know how that one goes too.

The house I am living in is different from the others as well. My room is separated from the others which is ok because it gives me privacy, but at the same time it's harder to integrate with the family. We have a courtyard in the middle of the house with trees, plants, and just an open airy place which makes the house a lot more comfortable and cool. The courtyard is surrounded by rooms, kitchen, and bathroom. I’ll post pics up soon…

Anywho, all volunteers are required to live with their host families for 2 months and then we have the option of getting our own place!!! At first I was inclined to live with the host family for my two year service, but now I’m seriously considering getting a place of my own. Not because of the family, I would just like to experience living on my own sometime in my life… why not now? Nacaome is a safe place… I guess we shall see after a couple months.

Well, I’m signing off. Hope everyone is doing well!