The Slow Down

So I have stopped into Sevare for a brief visit to partake in a party for the soon-to-be-departing volunteers that have completed their 2 years of service. I will be headed back to site this afternoon. This past month has been slow, and I have had a few frustrations in village that have kept me occupied. My malady of the month is thankfully not gastrointestinal, but involves some growing mystery wounds on my feet that have been hanging around for several weeks. I blame them on the fact that I have been playing in the waterfalls in my village often over the past month. So I am not looking for sympathy, because I realized the risk when I partook, and as long as these wounds actually heal sometime in the next month, I will say that it was all worth it. For those of you that are actually worried for my health and well-being, don't be. Most of the volunteers that I have spoken to are well-acquianted with the mystery wounds, and have alerted me to all of the necessary creams, soaps and lotions that I should be slathering on my disgusting, infected body. With the waterfalls and the healthy crop of grains, my village is really beautiful right now. And I guess the word must be out, because I have had a recent stream of visitors recently to check it out. No one has left disappointed. Otherwise a consultation visit that I scheduled with a Peace Corps water sanitation employee was delayed by a few weeks, so my project proposal is on a temporary hold. He is due to come by next week, so I should be able to get everything ready to submit soon. The other small frustration is that I hired someone to cement the inside of my house, because I was having issues with my house flooding during the rain storms (the rain was so strong that it was actually seeping in between the rocks of my house, and eating through the mud walls inside). Well I have been waiting for days for him to finish, and growing increasingly frustrated with each passing day. Luckily my work counterpart is fantastic, and told me to come to Sevare for the party and he would make sure that the work was finished by the time I returned. I will be cautiously optimistic.