Archive for July, 2005
the american cousin part II - rebelde
The american cousin left for the airport today with her mom. There weren’t too many more interactions with her, especially since Friday night I was busy packing my bag for a weekend excursion with a few other trainees - to a beautiful lake, camping with my new birthday tent from Julia, but that’s not […]
Posted by Marie on July 31st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »showers
Water falls at my homestay house about three times per week. We don’t have running water all of the time, just for a few hours in the morning on certain days. When the water is falling, they fill up the pila (a big cement holding tank), barrels, and various tubs with water to use for […]
Posted by Marie on July 31st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »thirty-six
The number 36 is
1. a perfect square2. divisible by numerous numbers, but factors down to 2 x 2 x 3 x 33. the product of two square numbers (4 x 9)4. Triangular - 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 85. How old I am today (go, me!)
the american cousin
We have a few Americans staying with us for two weeks at my homestay family. There is a mom and her daughter – the mom is the sister of my homestay mother, and her daughter is nearly 11. When they first came, the mom tried to speak to me in English a lot […]
Posted by Marie on July 27th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »nyabadza
I don’t know why I am thinking of Nyabadza so much lately. He was a teacher at my school in Zimbabwe, young and relatively good looking. Since he was so good looking, he had all of the single women in the village after him, including a lot of schoolgirls. Not only was […]
Posted by Marie on July 22nd, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »sherri
The first time I was in Peace Corps, there was a woman in our group who was marvelous. I’m only writing about marvelous people these days, apparently. Sherri was super intelligent, pretty, and best of all witty. As apparently is common in a lot of Peace Corps groups (according to the highly […]
Posted by Marie on July 22nd, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Kara
A while ago, I was on a blog campaign to write little snippets about people in my life. I miss it, so I think I’ll start again. My first caricature is Kara. I’m kind of surprised that I haven’t written about her before.
Kara and I moved to Chicago about about the same time, and met […]
soltera and gorda
I am a thirty-five year old single woman with more weight than I need. As was also common in Zimbabwe, people in El Salvador see no problems with commenting on my lack of children and boyfriends at this age (soltera, along the lines of spinster) or that I am large (gorda, or if they are […]
Posted by Marie on July 16th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »personal space
I think that, by living in another culture, we learn just about as much about ourselves as we learn about the other culture. Things become less important, in a way. For example, in the United States, people seem to be obsessed with personal space, myself included. Peace Corps sends us on a few travel days […]
Posted by Marie on July 16th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »self-actualization
One of my more perceptive friends responded to the Maszlow’s Hierarchy post (aka love among volunteers) with: Who cares about self-actualization when you can get someone to actualize it for you [with ‘love’]
That’s all I have time for today.
- ceiling fan, and baby exercises
- baby competition
- z’s first concert
- yay obama
- my lame halloween costume
- Our little social … human
- I guess time really is money
- starting and stopping work
- talking about breasts
- fresh out of the oven
- my life as a stay-at-home mom
- updated pictures on flickr
- but I do believe in miracles
- our little o negative baby
- blamers and the nuclear family
- his feet look like mine
- pictures on flickr
- new baby in the house
- We just joined the “buy more sh&t” club
- tomato sandwiches
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