Fun Stories

So I don't have any cool pictures lately because I haven't made a habit out of taking my camera places, but I'll work on that so I can post some cool pics.

One of these stories I wanted to post in the previous entry but I was so bored writing that I just kept this out. But it is crazy so I just have to tell it. It wasn't funny at the time...NOT FUNNY AT ALL...I actually started crying, but it's funny now.

Anyways, one weekend I went to the capital to see my best peace corps friend off. She was heading back for the states. Saturday morning we were walking down the street to go get something to eat. I was looking all nice with my hair straightened (out a once a year event here in this hot country) and with a brand new shirt I had bought the night before, when all of a sudden, something fell all over me. It felt like someone had thrown a water balloon at me only that it wasn't filled with water; something thicker than water. Well it wasn't a freaking water balloon. It was bird poo....or should i say bird DIARRHEA. You have no idea how much shit had fallen on me. It was ALL OVER my perfectly straightened hair, all over my brand new shirt, even on my freaking shoes. And there was more that landed on the sidewalk and even on my friend's purse, who as walking beside me. We both looked up and we like WHAT THE FUCK??!! was that? We saw no bird...no nothing. For a second I thought someone from whose house we were in front of may have thrown something out the window, but I don't think so. Anyways, I had to go take a shower...obviously. My friend was like: "What the hell was that? A teradactile?" I mean it may have been because there is no way that amount of shit could have come out of a normal bird. We will forever been in doubt...it wasn't funny at the time, but it sure the hell is now. I mean how many people can say they had a bird diarrhea on them.

Last weekend, one of the promoters I work with invited me to her community. It is corn season and so she invited me to eat corn and all the yummy snacks that you can make from corn. She lives in a community called Argentina, which is way up on top of a mountain. The road to get there is so so ugly and I thought we were going to die in the truck we went up in. It was a huge cattle truck and it was all rickety and swaying back and forth as we went through all the holes in the road. Since it's been raining it's all muddy, and we almost crashed into another car when the truck skidded in the mud. But we made it (the trip back down the next morning was a whole different adventure). We peeled corn, ate corn on the cob...it was so so sweet. Freshly cut corn. Then we made tortas de elote (fried corn patties). You take all the corn off the cob and run it through a mill then add butter, sugar, salt and cheese and then you fry it. So yummy. My friend's mom also made ruiguas, which have almost the same ingredients as the tortas but they are grilled in banana leaves.

In the late afternoon, I went with my friend to the field, where she gets together with other friends and they practice doing gymnastic moves like somersaults and hand-walk-overs. It was really hilarious. We made a six person pyramid and then we practiced English. They all wanted to practice their English.

It was a fun day and night. Sandra (my friend) has a really nice family and her older sister is super cool. And she has a niece that is so so hilarious. The next time I am SO taking my camera.

Other than that, not much else has been going on. Just been working and hanging out. Missing home a lot. It's about that time, when all I can think about is going home.