Village life!

Hello everybody!

I have a good amount of free time, so I thought I would update. Life in the village is definitely a different pace then it is in the city, but so far I’m liking that. After I got home from school I spent the day playing soccer with my host brother and friends. We also got a big net and dragged through the water (fishing). It was an experience to say the least, but I had fun.

Today I took a walk with my host brother and sister to Leslie’s house. Her house is about an hour away walking. On the way we stopped at a shop and got some pepsi. We also walked past another lot of land my family owns, and it has corn and mandarin trees on it. I also met the family cow, of which my family makes milk, cheese, and butter from. We also eat the chickens that walk around the property. They also grow tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, nuts, pears, and lemons. Almost everything that we eat is grown and made in house. All that being said I think were a decently wealthy family. Im not sure what my host father does because he works weird hours. My host mom is a history teacher at my school. There are also a couple of home businesses, one of them being selling propane, and the other one being selling nuts. As I write this there are 2 old women are cleaning nuts and putting them into buckets to be sold. My host family has 3 vehicles, A large propane truck (that I’m not sure runs, it might just be used for storage), A old 1970’s? Russian car, and small 2000 Mercedes sedan. The power is a little flaky here, as it just went out, which makes it the second time in as many days.

Tomorrow I have a meeting in Urek where I will meet the regional representative for TLG, and formally meet my school principal and co-teachers. Hopefully we get our books tomorrow so I can start lesson planning and preparing for my teaching debut!

Tata for now

-Kenneth