PCV: Paid Caribbean Vacation

The intention of this blog is nothing, just the inner thoughts of my mind right now.

• I am so ready to get out of my training site. Another week of sitting in the bottom of a church getting talked to for 8 hours a day on a hard wooden chair with a bad fan blowing at me and I may kill people.
• Air conditioning is quite possibly the greatest thing ever created and if you for one second doubt its usefulness, reconsider for me. It's hot and it's rare to find a cool spot
• While they run rampant, I do value the intelligence of dogs for their ability to find spots to keep cool. Im not sure I would think of getting under a broken down car or laying inside sewer drains and I commend them for their wits.
• Getting on a bus at 6:20am and hearing R&B jams from the 90's is truly satisfying. This morning I got to hear Brandi, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, and Monica. The Monica song was none other than "For you I will" from the Space Jam soundtrack. Yeah... I owned it. But this was before R. Kelly was peeing on people.
• I thought I would be more tan by now being that Im living in the tropics but I dont feel like this is happening. I still hold strong to refusing to wear sunscreen but if you sat in a classroom from sun up until sun down you would understand.
• People's stress levels stress me out. We have so many sessions in the Peace Corps, perhaps one of them should be "deep breathing."
• My camera broke. I dropped it and I guess that happens when you do that. Oh well. Most of my pictures are stolen from other people anyway.
• Im going to write a Peace Corps manual before I leave here and make millions. Imagine any common sense thought you ever had about anything. Write a manual about it and I guarantee Peace Corps has a manual for it. It cant be that hard, most of them are 30 years old and are useless. Im sure they were useless then too. Ok, perhaps Im being rough, but whoever started the trend was a genius. I want my piece of the pie.
• Whoever owns Belikin Beer should be ashamed of themselves. They have a monopoly on all beverages in this country and they choose to produce a beer so bad that it's hard to stomach at times. Shame on you. If you are the only person distributing, you owe it to the people to give them something crisp, refreshing, and smooth.
• 5 weeks in this country and I havent really seen the ocean. Who would have thought that?
• Im going to miss seasons. I mean we have 2 here: wet and dry. That doesnt seem like enough. I think if I ever come back to the states, Im going to Minnesota or something so I can freeze just for the sake of being able to get cold
• Belizeans, well mostly Mayans, have extremely large families. 16 kids is a walk in the park. While I respect these women for their enormous fertility, I have 1 question for all the couples of Belize. How do you possibly procreate in this heat?
• This blog entry is ludicrous. Its like diahrrea coming from my mouth. but Im not finished quite yet
• My addiction to nasal spray seems to be subsiding. It takes work, I only get the shakes in the morning for a few hours now.
• Back to that procreation bullet point... our Medical Officer (PCMO) Jackie told us last week that she just ordered 10,000 condoms. I started to think about this. I cant even imagine being next to someone in that heat. She tells me I will change my mind. We have roughly 70 volunteers in this country. Assuming no one is having sex with another PCV, each volunteer would have to have sex about every 5 days for thier entire 2 year stay in order for us to use them in the alotted 2 years. That is an absurd amount of sex. I feel like this is a study I want to look more into because I just dont see it happening.
• On that note, Im going to go make a fool of myself and attend a yoga class.

t-minus 3 days until site assignments...