Clueless American

Hello!

This was a bit of a rough week.  Some things went really well (I found a stellar hat and romper) but somethings were not so great.  The biggest disaster of the week was missing a test I thought was supposed to be on Friday.  It was actually on Wednesday.  oops!  Hopefully I will be able to play the clueless American card, as much as I hate it, I don't want to fail the class! I'll keep you posted.

Week one with no hair has gone well!  there are a lot of women here with short hair, but most of them are rocking the mini afro, something I cannot pull off.  Working on it!  So far I haven't missed my long hair, but I need to get more hats!

Today a few IES students and I went to a training session for a mentorship program in the area.  It was a field trip for my IES class about effective and ethical community development programs.  Not only was the information and the program really interesting, getting to know the other volunteers and hear their reasons for volunteering was really interesting and inspiring.  I also got to have a very interesting conversation with two women in their 40s or 50s.  They had a lot to say about the differences between the generations who had or hadn't experienced Apartheid.  Work ethic was the biggest change they felt they had seen and entitlement.  Maybe this is a realisation every generation has about the next, but it was very cool to get to talk to them about it.  Having conversations like this is definitely something I embrace about being a clueless american.  If you ask questions and are attentive to the answers there is no end to the amount of insight people want to tell you.  It's fun!
Last night I made poppy seed scones!  They were very good, but I ate wayyy too many of them. I need to learn to bake smaller batches.

 Tomorrow is Sunday and I am looking forward to going to the 75 min flow class at 9:00.  It will be the hardest class I have tried so far, but I think I will like it. A Challenge!  And then if the weather holds I would like to go the beach!  I am planning on making some Fisherman's stew for some of my friends tomorrow night, so I hope to buy some fresh fish close to the source!

I dont have any pictures of my own to share this time (again)  but here is a picture of Annie's dorm room:

So cute!  and SO Eugene.  We raised her well.  :)