Hey family! You guys (except Angie) all suck my butt for not posting - is Sonia off on some remote island where the only means of communication are coconuts strung together, a la Gilligan's Island? With no crafty Professor to get her back to civilization? Those are my questions of the day.
Well, about 6 weeks have passed by for me in Nicaragua - in some ways I feel like I'm an old-timer here! It's kind of cool to have been thrown in headfirst to the work because the learning curve is so steep. Lots of great projects are coming up involving traveling and seeing more of the country. The military will be doing a 'new horizons' project here that entails building health clinics and schools in a very rural and impoverished region of Nicaragua. What that means for me is several trips in Blackhawk and Chinook US helicopters! Woohoo!
I've met some fun folks here that are making my social life, well, actually a social LIFE instead of a lack thereof. I've been going out a bit, and my discovery of the week was going to the only sushi place in town a couple nights ago with a friend. I was thrilled - pretty decent sushi, pretty cheap (but then what isn't cheap here?) and one of the only places in town that makes Cosmos. Yes, I am happy.
What else? My housekeeper is working out well and she's been keeping the place clean and cooking good (but sometimes bland/boring) food. Little does she know that me and my friend the Tabasco sauce bottle fix that problem right away!
How are you guys doing? What's the good gossip on 'the street' (or more likely, from Grand Central Station aka Fiyya's family room) from the Shah Family Circus? I have a couple pictures of the five of us in my house and I always point them out to folks who stop by. They always comment on how all of you look like trolls and how I was blessed with all the beautiful genes in the family. I blush and graciously accept their compliments, of course.
Ha ha.
Ok, well, back to work, though it is a Friday afternoon and this week has been brutal due to a visit from the CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation. It's a new concept in foreign aid administration for the USG, and it sounds good in theory. Worth reading a bit about it if you get the time. Well, I miss you all a lot and hope things are good.
POST, you losers (not you Jill, well, not this time).
hhehe--coconuts--hehe.
Posted by: Angilee at September 20, 2004 01:04 AM