Looking Forward
In Manila last year, the typhoons washed out a community that the Peace Corps has since re-established in Laguna, on the East coast of Luzon island. They’ve got a a 10-day training camp coming up and need a community planner to participate. I feel honored to be invited and look forward to doing something diffferent and away from Dagupan City for a while. Although, I’m not sure what to expect. It could be anything from meeting with community leaders to beautification projects. They’ve built a school for 1700 kids, which may be the only permanent structure in the community, so we’ll operate out of the school.
I’m also looking foward to achieving my one year mark with the Peace Corps on August 20th. Maybe I will make it to 27 months after all. I was admittedly miserable here for a while. I’m so relieved to have my own apartment now. Living in such close quarters with other people was really getting me down.
I got a pool membership at an embarrassingly fancy resort near my place. I don’t need so much luxury, but I do love to swim, and the PC doctor advised me against swimming in the YMCA pool. The resort pool is like paradise in comparison, although on the weekends it becomes a full-blown Filipino water park from hell— blaring smaltzy 70s music and banana peels everywhere. Luckily, I already wear ear plugs for swimming.
