October 5, 2005

Jason: It gets dark around 6:00 pm, now that daylight savings time is over. It's kind of sad, because I really enjoyed the evening daylight. Kris is sick with diarrhea again. It's been robbing her of some class time, but she continues to stick it out. We're completely baffled, because there doesn't seem to be anything consistent about when she gets sick. The conditions are different. The days of the week are different, she eats the same food some days and is fine. Others, she gets sick. She tested negative for amoebas and protazoa. It's crazy.

We've been having trouble drying our laundry with all this rain. I'm running out of dry socks. I'll need to start ironing them dry, soon.

Tomorrow morning, my training group leaves for a two-day visit to two volunteers near Condega, Estelí. We're going to learn how to make peanut butter and jelly, and generally enjoy ourselves. It should be a blast!

We need to come up with some sort of "value-added" product to sell as a commercialization exercise in our training towns. My group is slacking. We still don't have a viable idea. I'm thinking some cheap food product would work great, like cookies.

Kris and I talked to the Associate PC Director today about our potential site assignment, and it seems like we'll be in either Jinotega or Nueva Segovia. More when we find out.