Today went really well. Lets see-I must be really lazy because I slept till 6:30! I had such a good nights rest though thanks to Tylenol PM. Tonight the weird dreams came-malaria medicine night. When I woke up the roosters were crowing, pigs squealing and a lot of other random noises. I had coffee and cassava (Ifarina?)-it was so hard to eat. It has no taste and is like a raw but boiled potato. It sucks all the moister out of your most so I just chased every bite with coffee. I think they got the idea that I didn’t like it. We left for class at 7:30 and we got to the “training center”(Holy cow-it is so windy I am scared-it sounds like the house is going to fall down). Anyway, when we got to the school there was no one in charge there and then one trainer showed up but since the head guy (Nelson) wasn’t there we walked to a kiosk and bought these muffin/not sweet funnel cake things that were so good! I definitely needed it to compensate for the cassava. We got back to the school and realized that it is in use so we walked up a hill to have class at a woman’s house. Then we had language-Alfonso is my teacher along with Joe, TC and Randy. So after language we walked home and ate with our families and then walked back and had more Tetun. I talked to mom for 1 minute and then we got cut off. We had some Tech Training (the health part).
Around 5:30 pm we headed home. I took a shower and then helped Anto cook. She laughed at me and didn’t want me to but I just kept saying I want to help. It was fun. I fried bananas. Then I studied with Paula (the little girl). She copies whatever I write. We had dinner-some tofu with rice and it was actually really good. Then I just hung out some more and practiced speaking Tetun and now I am safely under my net with one light on that says on all night.
Now for the best part-I have a puppy already! So there was this puppy that Randy’s host kid found with a broken leg (I am not sure but he may have broken it!) She is tiny and light brown and has really big ears. My host mom tried to fix its leg and we think she popped it back in place and it is just sore now. So at lunch I first saw the puppy and I gave it water and it ate the food that a baby dropped. When I got home at dinner she was at my house. I have her water and Joe looked at her leg. I kept saying that I like dogs and I am sad that the dog is hurt. Dogs are treated kind of like chickens here. If it weren’t for Randy and I they wouldn’t have done anything for the puppy. But Anto fed the dog and I gave it water AND they are letting it sleep in the house. My host mom (Catarina) even wiped some type of medicine on its leg. I think it was cocont water with eucalyptus in it. We named her Gimpy. I really hope noting bad happens to her but I am preparing myself for the worst. She is so cute though, I will try to get a pictures soon. Because she is so young she comes to us. I really think that they think we are crazy for caring so much for the dog. It doesn’t phase them to hit it or be mean to any animal and that is really hard for me to get used to.
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