Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Happy Valetine's Day


Hope you all had a good Valentine's Day. February has gone by quickly, seems like time here just gets faster and faster, except when it gets slower, :P The picture is of my favorite food here called the Tortilla de Harina (Flour Tortilla in english) and it is probably my equivalent of McDonalds fast, tastes great, tons of calories, and only Q15 (less than $2).

This weekend I'm painting a jungle/forest scene in the Kids Malnutrition Recovery section of our new health center, and I'll be painting underwater scenes in the bathroom. Lively colors, should be fun but I am basically doing it by myself so hopefully I can get it done in time before I go on vacation. I'll be traveling with my family in the beginning of March so I have a lot to finish before-hand because when I'm not here pushing these things nothing gets done, or the worst, a ton of things get done that I never knew about... I hope they don't take my desk computer while I'm gone.

We just had a baby shower in the office, she is hugely pregnant. Poor girl is so tiny and her stomach has to more than double her. I told her she would have it today, but it hasn't come yet, we're waiting for a full moon. Also we have 3 new interns in and the last one is leaving soon. He has helped me a lot with the library project, which btw we have a meeting tomorrow morning and will hopefully be getting some funding from USAID, so thank you America.

Otherwise I'm doing good. I hurt my foot swimming at some waterfalls on the coast last weekend but it's going away with time. I have lots of laundry to do as always and it's gotten really old doing it by hand... I also made a delicious chocolate cake (from a nice box sent by my grandmae) with strawberry icing, yummmm. I brought pieces around to my neighbors so that I wouldn't eat the whole thing by myself. I'm doing more art lately, well first off these giant murals, and then also some small sculptures at my house. I don't really have the tools or the time to do them up the way I'd like (I've been carving potatoes which smell bad after a day or two), so I'm making drawings of them to take home and hopefully I can finish them there.

Let me know how you all are doing, I miss you all so much!

Peace, Love,
Robin

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oh girl, you're adorable! sitting around carving up potatoes! haha i love you!

i miss you, but it sounds like you're doing so well down there now!

i'll write more on facebook when i get a chance!

love!