July 31, 2005

Ok! So I am going to write like the moving Momento…from the end of my day to the beginning.

I am safe in my bed after having taken my first Whippy bath because it is raining HARD and it was “way” to late when we got home (7:30 pm). But of course before I go to bed I always use the santina. Well there was a spider about the size of my palm waiting for me when I went to the santina. I promptly got Anto who promptly smooshed it with her shoe. This happened right after Randy and I had a cold dinner (which we are probably going to get sick from) by candle light because the electricity went ot 5 minutes after we got home. We all made it down the muddy slope without falling on our bums. This was after exiting the over crowded microlet (small van) where I was squashed in the back corner. The microlet had problems it had to stop about 4 times and did not always want to start again, but it did and thank goodness because when the car wasn’t in motion the stench of body odor as almost too much for me to handle. We were lucky enough to even get the microlet after my fierce host mom kicked 4 people out of the way for us and bargained the price down from $1 to $.50 per person. She also shewed a drunk guy away from us and wouldn’t let anyone come within 5 feet of us. We had waiting for about 1.5 hours for a car to come and while waiting we ran into my host mom and TC’s host mom at the bus station (it may have actually been easier had we not ran into them because we would of just taken a taxi but they refused). They were in town visiting Randy’s mom who is at Dili National Hospital because she is sick but I can’t figure out what she has. We think it is bad though because the family seems really sad.

I am actually kid of scared right- the spider and the rain and the microlet ride-this truly is a Peace Corps experience. I am going to try to sleep but my nerves are going so I don’t know if it will happen