2006.06.18: June 18, 2006: Headlines: COS - Zambia: Blogs - Zambia: Malaria: Lariam: ET: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer Mi Nena writes: So I think I'm at what the PC calls "your lows will be low".
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2006.06.18: June 18, 2006: Headlines: COS - Zambia: Blogs - Zambia: Malaria: Lariam: ET: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer Mi Nena writes: So I think I'm at what the PC calls "your lows will be low".
Peace Corps Volunteer Mi Nena writes: So I think I'm at what the PC calls "your lows will be low".
"Yet your "highs are very high". I havent been at a high yet. I feel like I've been camping for the past week and a half... although the past week and a half have felt like a year and a half. Its crazy how its morning over here, but my friends are out partying because its saturday night in nyc!"
Peace Corps Volunteer Mi Nena writes: So I think I'm at what the PC calls "your lows will be low".
Sunday, June 18, 2006
In Kitwe
So I think I'm at what the PC calls "your lows will be low". Yet your "highs are very high". I havent been at a high yet. I feel like I've been camping for the past week and a half... although the past week and a half have felt like a year and a half. Its crazy how its morning over here, but my friends are out partying because its saturday night in nyc!
Zambia is a nice country, and I have seen so many stars at night, the big dipper upside down, constellations only available in the southern hemisphere. I have seen the milky way, fed a rhino some sugar cane, seen elephants in the wild, and not to mention other insects that I would have rather not seen!!
I am homesick like crazy and well I cant really express that to my family since their reaction is always "just come home"... case in point, last night when i called home, my mom broke down in tears and just told me to go home! Yes so easy to just say come home, but I will regret leaving if I make that decision without giving this thing a fair chance. I have issues with the meds and how things will effect my body, and of course my health always comes first. But I need support from back home... not an easy cop out!!
I'm in Kitwe right now at an internet cafe. Hopefully I can come out every sunday and use the net, but you just never know how things will flow over here. I've been here for a week and a half and it feels like i've been here forever!!
My host family is great, and sometimes the food is good too. Learning a new language is interesting, and the things I have sacrificied are amazing. I hope all is well with everyone back home. I miss everyone like crazy, but just know that i am trying to stay strong over here.
Love you!
Monday, June 26, 2006
So this journey ends here....
So I'm in Lusaka, in the office, because I am going home... yup three weeks later and i'm on my way back to the US. It definitely sucks, but my health comes first, and in my time here my body has not taken too well to the malaria meds and i've completely messed up my knees from riding for 45 klicks.... then my host stay brother asked me to sleep with him! Yeah, go figure....
So I will go back to the US and get my knee checked out and if I'm good to go hopefully the Peace Corps will be able to send me to a country without malaria where i wont need to ride a bike! go figure...
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