first 2 weeks = working about 8 hours..

These are the views from picking oragnes with Alex! AMAZING!




Alex and his neighbor walking to the oranges!


My Future bedroom!


Daine painted the floor. How cool is this??


My future Kitchen/Dinning room!


My view, its hard to see but you can for sure see the sea back there!


My little sister Zahan hanging out in our back yard!


This is seriously my back yard!


The house I'm currently living in! We live upstairs and the down stairs in currently empty. So great!


My amazing host mom hanging in our backyard getting ready to bathe in the sea!


An amazing sunset from our back porch


My host sister were really excited to see that I had a camera and took A LOT of pictures!


My beautiful host sisters. We were making oatmeal muffins, which if you were wondering were AMAZING!


So, all most of you know of my first two weeks of being a official PCV is that I still haven’t learned to walk right (one would think I would by 23!!). Well I’ll fill you in a little more.
First an update on my knee. Ok, I might have down played how bad these cuts on my knee really were. They are crazy deep. The day after I fell it starting hurting much worse and I called up the nurse at PC. I traveled in to see her in Belmopan the next day. (I’m not sure why but I can picture a lot of you asking what is evolved in getting there? Well thanks for asking! I have to first take a bus into Dangrigia, it may only be 15 miles but it takes a whole hour... how? Also a great question! From there I take another bus in to Belmopan that takes anywhere from 1.5 hours to over 2. I swear it’s different all the time!) So I got to Belmopan and first she explains that it’s infected pretty badly, also she thinks that my knee cap is actually broke! I went and got x-rays, and she starts me on meds. Alright, it’s not broke but she wants to see it again the next day so surprise! I get to spend the night in the lovely Garden City Hotel. (The hotel we always stay at while in Belmopan... and it’s... something! Let just say my standards have changed A LOT!) So I spent the night and then saw her again the next day. Finally Friday I get back to Hopkins at about 6pm. Ok, in case you were wondering so far I have worked a total at 3.5 hours as a volunteer. I rock!
Saturday morning I spent sitting on the beach (aka our yard) and chatting with my host mom and youngest sister. Sometimes during this I thought to myself “I hope I never forget this”. It was just so simple yet relaxing and amazing! Later on Silk grass (a small village about 5 miles from Hopkins) was having a school fair. I tagged along with my host mom and sisters. The fair was... quite? Ha-ha basically there was nothing going on. But good news! My fellow PCV and friend Alexander lives there and I was able to hang out with him! As we were sitting there bored his neighbor came up and asked if we wanted to go to his farm and pick oranges with him. Uhhh YES! We hopped in his car and headed about 20 mins off the main highway on a rough dirt road. It was possible one of the most amazing views I have ever seen! So we park and go and gather some oranges for us, we tried to find mangos but they weren’t ready yet. (Random fact did you know there are like 15 different kinds of mangos!?!?!) On the way back to the car we stopped and Alex’s neighbor got us a few coconuts done and cut them up with his Machete we drank them right there. It was amazing. It was a total moment of “this is what is about”. Good company and amazing adventures! After the farm Alexander got back on the bus with my family and me and headed back to Hopkins. We crashed on Diane's place (the other PCV in Hopkins and my future roomie...) It was a great relaxing night. I can’t imagine what I would do without the other PCVs. Sunday we spend the say swimming and walking around meeting people. It was so nice and just what I think we both (Alexander and I) needed. Monday it was back to Belmopan for 2 days so Jackie could see my knee again. Good news: It’s no long infected just gross and painful. But I have faith that it will get better soon! Hey and what a good story, "Oh yea I got that scar when I was in the Peace Corps in Belize". I love it! Yesterday it was back to work! (It’s about time!!!) It was good to be back but short lived as today I’m back in Belmopan to get my knee checked again, hopefully for the last time! Tomorrow however I will not being going to work. Instead I’m going to Caves Branch (a resort near Belmopan) to learn how to play chess. Hopefully I’ll have a chess camp if not this summer than next!
So many of you might be thinking roomie?? That means you found a house! Well yes I did! There is a PCV, Diane that has been in Hopkins for a year and a half now. She is wonderful and has been such a big held since I got here. She is also leaving in Sept or Oct. There for I’m moving in with her so I can have her house when she leaves! Its an amazing house and luckily I have a few pics for you. More to come soon I promise! It’s a great house and not far from the ocean at all. In fact not only can you hear it as you fall asleep but I will also have a limited view of it during the day. It’s a 2 bedroom so I have plenty of room for any visitors!!!! For real it’s amazing I’m luck to get it! I never pictured this being my pc experience but I’m deffanitly not complaining! I seriously can’t wait for everyone to come visit so I can show you just how amazing this country and this village are! There are not words to describe

Alright sorry this is so long and I don't have too many fun stories but I hope you enjoy the pictures! I'll update soon and hopfully with a better story!!!