In the last several weeks I have started spending more time just with friends and community members, and less time doing legit work (I should clarify that spending time with community members still constitutes as work... :). I still show up to school mostly every day, but in the afternoons I´ve been trying to spend most of my time baking with people, or just paseando (hanging out). Either that or heading into town to work in computer cafés because my laptop is broken, followed by hanging out with friends in town. It´s great, but it also reminds me how much I´m going to miss everything when I leave. I´ll be honest when I say that any idea I had of becoming a teacher before I came here has been shot down after working in the schools for 2 years. I´m just not cut out to be a full time teacher. I don´t have the skills my Dad has.
But I´m really going to miss just being able to stop over at someone´s house to talk or watch telenovelas over a cup of local homeroasted coffee and homemade bread, then being gifted fruit as I leave. I could do without some of the small town gossip, but I´m going to miss everyone in town knowing who I am, and most saying hi to me in the street. I´ve been the Peace Corps Volunteer and Profe José in my community for 2 years. That´s been my identity, and it´s going to be difficult going back to the States and going back to being Joe. But, as I´ve been saying, todo lo bueno tiene que terminar, así es la vida. Everything good must come to an end, thus is life. So I´m going to live up my last month here, and know that the next phase is my life may be different, but will still be great in it´s own way.
And here are a few pics...
I´ve been trying to hike more volcanos before leaving. |