Today, I heard a pig getting slaughtered next door. I'm really glad we have high walls around the yard so I wasn't able to hear it. It was a pretty lazy Saturday, emphasis on the lazy. I didn't get out of bed until 8:30, sat around in bed reading and doing puzzles on nationalgeographic.com, and ate a piece of pizza from dinner last night for breakfast. It was mostly just crust and sauce, though, since I took off all the mushrooms and olives first. I hung out at Andrew's house for a few hours and ate lunch there. His mom asked me if I ate fish and I said no. When lunchtime came, she had made a bunch of stuff that looked really delicious. She told me to try the lumpia (spring or egg rolls kind of) because they had vegetables in them. She forgot to say that they also had meat in them. I ate them anyway because they were good and didn't want to insult her. She also told me to try the vegetables in the soup that also had beef in it. The vegetables were good, especially the potatoes. Those people are so nice.
Andrew and Kyle
After we ate, Kyle sat on my knee and I bounced him as he said words that came out wobbly. I understood a sentence Kyle said to me for the first time ("Busog na ko?" Are you full?) I called Dart Dart Lamok today (lamok is the word for mosquito, which is his real last name). He frowned but then I told him he has beautiful hair and he said "Thank you!" Kyle also gave me a piece of what I THOUGHT to be candy but turned out to be like a salty rice puff. I licked it and gave it back to him. I hoped for about 2 seconds that he would decide to eat it but I guess his mother has taught him better than that. He threw it out the door. It's hard not to like these kids.
Andrew's dad seems like kind of a badA type to me, since he walks around without a shirt on, has long hair, and smokes. I get the feeling from him that he's just as protective of us as all our other host parents. When they asked me if I went to Smallville (section of town with lots of bars) last night with some of the other PCTs, they seemed relieved that I said no. I thought we might just get that from some of the more religious families like Meg's, but these people who don't go to church were just ask quick to say we shouldn't go there. I always like it when people prove me wrong about themselves.
I came home and read more of my book and took a nap until about 4:30. I'm sitting on the floor of my room listening to my iPod, typing on my computer, texting on my phone and uploading pictures from my camera. It's kind of weird watching the black bugs land on my screen and try to walk on it against the current of the fan blowing on me. I'm not sure if this is what Peace Corps is supposed to be like, but this is what it's been like for me.
My bed is crawling with bugs tonight. Note: mosquito nets don't protect you from gnats and fruit fly looking things. But they also don't carry dengue and malaria so whatever.
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