Sunday, October 19, 2008

On the Road Again, Just Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again

Well, as you can tell from the title of this entry I am about to get traveling once again. I am happy to report that after little over two weeks I am finally going to be returning to post. I've been gone forever and a day because on the 6 of this month I had to come down for a middle of service medical evaluation (all volunteers have to do it so don't worry) and i'm happy to say that i'm pretty damn healthy. i have ameobas which i have to take meds for when i get back to post but other than that i'm probably in better shape than i was when i left home. but anyway, the exam went to the 8 because i had to have a tb test (all health volunteers have to do this, so once again, don't worry). again i'm happy to report no tb here. the reason i did not go home after this was that health and environment volunteers had to do a HIV/AIDS training starting the 13. Well you see, i live so far away from where this training was being held that it would have been pointless and just plain uncomfortable to travel from the medical unit to post and then back down to this training. so i stayed down here. i'm pretty sure i've already explained all of this in an earlier post. i'll try to post pictures in the comming weeks from the training and give you a better overview of what we did. it wasn't anything too special, but like always it's nice to get everyone together. and it's not like i'd turn down an opportunity to spend a week with a shower, cnn, and air conditioning. you may be wondering why, if the training was done on friday am i still not back at post, well the answer is that i am taking advantage of a free ride. my peace corps superivors is scheduled to come by and visit my post this tuesday. so me and meagan have decided to wait around and ride up with her because peace corps staff always get to travel in nice air conditioned suv's. i'd take an suv trip over an 10+ hour taxi or bus ride anyday. the only down side is that having stayed here i've spent even more money. in the past two weeks i think i've blown 100$!! i'm a little freaked out about this b/c i'm suppose to be saving this money for my vacation to mali. gotta live like a hermit the next couple months to make up for this huge splurge. i guess that's it for now. i hope to have an opportunity to post again, but i have no idea when.

so until then...

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