two weeks ago at this moment i was passed out in the window seat of an airplane headed for a connection stop in miami. and right now? i am seated in the dining room of our sweet apartment at our dining table doing my usual early morning emailage and listening to the painstakingly loud voice of the woman at the evangelical school next door shout into a microphone to the small children in the courtyard. this is an everyday occurrence, people. like clockwork every weekday at 7am Christian music blasts from the speakers and this same female voice gets these tiny students excited for the day. yes, 7am. not that i don't already ALWAYS wake up at 7am, of course. but clearly alarms are not necessary in this house.
this morning, a nice little monday, i've got a 9am meeting with Cosmo about one of my projects which is to evaluate and reconstruct the High School Scholarship Program as is stands. basically Cosmo is going to give me the complete lowdown on who has scholarships, what the terms are for the scholarships given, who is failing in school and how the program is currently structured. then i will pick it all apart and figure out how to make it better. mind you, this will not all occur at our 9am meeting, but some rigorous detail-sharing will go down.
until then i will continue with my morning rituals: devouring coffee (olivia that sweetheart has just made us a pot), fixing some delicious and nutritious oatmeal with plenty of raisins and a splash of soy milk, sending the family a mass email that maps out my plans for the day in minute detail and then realizing that a 4-page daily email is unnecessary and that no one will actually read the whole thing, and hopping onto the washingtonpost.com to see whats going on in my old stomping grounds of the U.S. and A. but the new addition to my morning? CLEO! yes people, we have a kitty.
and what a kitty. she's tinnnnny and adorable. granted she won't shut up and meows a lot louder than you'd think a 1-pound critter would ever be able to, but she is just cute as a furry, little black and white button. cosmo gave us this sweet little animal this weekend after someone left it on her front porch. we have been four women obsessed ever since. she is our baby and olivia and adele especially have taken it upon themselves to nurse this lovable vermin to perfect health and spoil her rotten. in three days they've done pretty well thus far. Queen Cleopatra of the Moon in Siberia Eating Tacos. or cleo for short. she's a spunky little one but darn if she isn't just the light of our lives.
we're still trying to figure out what to do with her this week, though. wednesday night we are all headed for Copan until saturday (or maybe sunday?) for a long conference weekend for Project Honduras. i am super excited for this. i mean conferences... meh, you know? but what's groovy is that we will be meeting like-minded people who have invested interests in the welfare of people in this beautiful country and some glorious networking and mingling is going to go down. it will be the event of the season. plus it's in Copan! i think i might bring my chuck taylors. shnazz it up a bit.
so all in all things are going quite swimmingly. last week we had our first real week of work and were all dedicated in some way to the Sunshine Education Center. whether by helping out with the after school reinforcement program, running an art program or carrying out a computer course we all experienced hands-on how the center is run and just how ridiculousy amazing Iloany and Kate (the women who run the show there) really are in what they do. We wrapped the week up with a day trip to Tela yesterday. It was incredible... spending the day just sipping milk out of a coconut with a straw, looking out onto the gorgeous carribean sea, just kickin it with some amazing ladies. i couldn't have asked for a better sunday.
well, that oatmeal isn't gonna nuke itself, people. over and out.
this morning, a nice little monday, i've got a 9am meeting with Cosmo about one of my projects which is to evaluate and reconstruct the High School Scholarship Program as is stands. basically Cosmo is going to give me the complete lowdown on who has scholarships, what the terms are for the scholarships given, who is failing in school and how the program is currently structured. then i will pick it all apart and figure out how to make it better. mind you, this will not all occur at our 9am meeting, but some rigorous detail-sharing will go down.
until then i will continue with my morning rituals: devouring coffee (olivia that sweetheart has just made us a pot), fixing some delicious and nutritious oatmeal with plenty of raisins and a splash of soy milk, sending the family a mass email that maps out my plans for the day in minute detail and then realizing that a 4-page daily email is unnecessary and that no one will actually read the whole thing, and hopping onto the washingtonpost.com to see whats going on in my old stomping grounds of the U.S. and A. but the new addition to my morning? CLEO! yes people, we have a kitty.
and what a kitty. she's tinnnnny and adorable. granted she won't shut up and meows a lot louder than you'd think a 1-pound critter would ever be able to, but she is just cute as a furry, little black and white button. cosmo gave us this sweet little animal this weekend after someone left it on her front porch. we have been four women obsessed ever since. she is our baby and olivia and adele especially have taken it upon themselves to nurse this lovable vermin to perfect health and spoil her rotten. in three days they've done pretty well thus far. Queen Cleopatra of the Moon in Siberia Eating Tacos. or cleo for short. she's a spunky little one but darn if she isn't just the light of our lives.
we're still trying to figure out what to do with her this week, though. wednesday night we are all headed for Copan until saturday (or maybe sunday?) for a long conference weekend for Project Honduras. i am super excited for this. i mean conferences... meh, you know? but what's groovy is that we will be meeting like-minded people who have invested interests in the welfare of people in this beautiful country and some glorious networking and mingling is going to go down. it will be the event of the season. plus it's in Copan! i think i might bring my chuck taylors. shnazz it up a bit.
so all in all things are going quite swimmingly. last week we had our first real week of work and were all dedicated in some way to the Sunshine Education Center. whether by helping out with the after school reinforcement program, running an art program or carrying out a computer course we all experienced hands-on how the center is run and just how ridiculousy amazing Iloany and Kate (the women who run the show there) really are in what they do. We wrapped the week up with a day trip to Tela yesterday. It was incredible... spending the day just sipping milk out of a coconut with a straw, looking out onto the gorgeous carribean sea, just kickin it with some amazing ladies. i couldn't have asked for a better sunday.
well, that oatmeal isn't gonna nuke itself, people. over and out.
-eva jane
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