I'm here! A few things:
- It's hot. Really hot. It's also windy, but the wind is also hot, so you don't even notice it.
- It's buggy. I forgot about this and how much it drove me near the edge of my sanity the first time I came. Honestly, I called Mum and Dad in tears one night and was like "THERE. ARE. BUGS. EVERYWHERE. I can't handle this." And Dad made some crack about "are you going buggy?" and I almost hung up the phone. When it's dark out and the lights in the house are on, it feels like you're in one of those butterfly sanctuaries where all the butterflies come and land on you... except instead it's flies, moths, those neon green hopping bugs, more moths, mosquitoes, etc. I even had a tick land on me last night, even though I'm 99.5% sure they cannot fly.
- The beans and rice are even more delicious than I remembered.
- I have a lot of work to do. But it's fun stuff.
- Ina gets here in 2 days! So so so excited.
- There is another Finnish family on staff here and they have a 3-year old boy who fluently speaks Finnish, Swedish, English and Spanish. Did I mention he is 3? The funny thing is, we met yesterday while I was helping with a kids club and speaking Spanish to all the kiddos around me. He instantly chimed in in Spanish, and now he will not speak anything else to me but Spanish, even when I ask him questions in English. His hair is almost white from the sun and everyone who sees it must touch it.
- Miss you all.
- It's hot. Really hot. It's also windy, but the wind is also hot, so you don't even notice it.
- It's buggy. I forgot about this and how much it drove me near the edge of my sanity the first time I came. Honestly, I called Mum and Dad in tears one night and was like "THERE. ARE. BUGS. EVERYWHERE. I can't handle this." And Dad made some crack about "are you going buggy?" and I almost hung up the phone. When it's dark out and the lights in the house are on, it feels like you're in one of those butterfly sanctuaries where all the butterflies come and land on you... except instead it's flies, moths, those neon green hopping bugs, more moths, mosquitoes, etc. I even had a tick land on me last night, even though I'm 99.5% sure they cannot fly.
- The beans and rice are even more delicious than I remembered.
- I have a lot of work to do. But it's fun stuff.
- Ina gets here in 2 days! So so so excited.
- There is another Finnish family on staff here and they have a 3-year old boy who fluently speaks Finnish, Swedish, English and Spanish. Did I mention he is 3? The funny thing is, we met yesterday while I was helping with a kids club and speaking Spanish to all the kiddos around me. He instantly chimed in in Spanish, and now he will not speak anything else to me but Spanish, even when I ask him questions in English. His hair is almost white from the sun and everyone who sees it must touch it.
- Miss you all.
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