Computer Difficulties

Hey! So I haven't written much here recently. I blame it partly on the fact that we are almost done and thus, everything isn't as interesting... but mostly on the fact that our computer broke down a while ago... and I just hate to write these things on the fly like I am doing now. Luckily, our friends Steve and Julie actually came down to visit, yay!!! With them they brought a new computer that I'd order and had sent to them. So, no I don't have the excuse, except that I just ran into a new wrinkle!

So, Word 2008 for Mac, can't be recognized by this older version of Word that we have on the computers in the office! So, I can't copy and paste what I wrote here to the blog... There is a way to save it as on older file...so I will eventually fix it. For now though, here are some new photos that I wanted to share.

So this is a friend of ours, Claudia, who is all dressed up for the Dia de Independencia. That dress is made just from paper! Her and some other girls worked on it for weeks prior to the big parade day.

These are some of the traditional outfits that the use for the folk dances that they do at pretty much any celebration.These are some girls that I actually managaed to get a good photo of. I always have trouble getting good group shots... very hard to get them all to smile!Here is my counterpart Secundino with his oldest daughter Belgini and their two kids, Kati and Jerson. When Secundino's wife got deported from the US after living there for almost 5 years. It was a huge re-adjustment for the family. In the end, Belgini, who had been running the household for the last 5 years had to move out. Her and her mom just couldn't live under the same roof. Sad.Here is our whole group together for the last time at our COS conference. That's Close of Service for those not up on Peace Corps speak! Cheers!

Oh, and I hope to soon post a "Guest Blog" from Steve and Julie on their thoughts about coming down and visiting us. Should be fun. Cheers again!