six months!
March 28, 2011 at 4:45 pm 1 comment
March 10 was the six-months-since-staging mark! Six months down, twenty to go.
In the past six months I have…
- read 20 books (13 in Nov/Dec only)
- made >15 friendship bracelets
- written ~75 pages of journal
- lost 10 pounds, gained back 5, and lost an unknown couple again
- worn socks 1 time
- worn long pants 0 times
- become a vegetarian without trying – the only meat I can access regularly in Sola comes in a can and makes me sick. I get fish about twice a month, and beef when there’s a big enough event to kill a cow (big holiday, training workshop, etc.)
- shaved my legs 0 times (pits 3, because I know you’re curious)
- woken up later than 7:30am <5 times
- become a little more cynical
In the past six months I have learned…
- how to meander
- how to sit and do absolutely nothing
- how to be skeptical
- how to speak an obscure language
- how to greet people in 3 other, more obscure languages, but haven’t learned which person speaks which language, so I usually stick with Bislama anyway
- my way around the French computer keyboard
- a lot about politics and corruption within groups, large and small, Ni-Van and American
- how to wash my clothes by hand and actually get them clean
- UK pop culture (i.e. Cheryl Cole, Cher Lloyd, Girls Aloud) (my magazines are second-hand from Ireland, thanks to the VSO vol)
- what “flash flood” really means
- that desk jobs are not for me
During the next six months I need to…
- practice being patient (just because I learned how to meander and do nothing doesn’t mean I like it)
- talk to people more (i.e. make friends with people over the age of 10)
- keep my idealism in check, my expectations for myself a little lower, but my confidence higher
- remember to shake the fireants out my clothes before putting them on
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Annie Rengering | March 29, 2011 at 4:08 am
My favorite one of your six month goals is the one about the fire ants.
I encourage you to continue to dream big (keep your idealism) but to remember that the progress toward your dreams may have to be in itty-bitty steps (make your expectations more reasonable in terms of timing). I believe that you can do whatever you set out to do! Love, Mrs. R.