Daily life in Moz

6-30-11

So training is only 10 weeks which isn’t really that long and for some reason I had it in my mind that training was 3 months.   So I am half way done with training at the end of this week!    My typical day in training starts at 630am, I cook myself breakfast.. usually an egg and cheese sandwich on pao (bread pronounced pow) and then language class at 730am.  Language class ends at 930 and then I go to health technical session at 10am till 12 when I go home for lunch.  My mom always has lunch waiting for me and then I work on some homework before I go back for more tech sessions at 130pm.  We end sessions around 430 and then I have language tutoring till 5pm.   Sometimes I go out with the group to have a beer, maybe go use the internet, do group yoga or go home and do homework.  Dinner is around 630 and my family usually eats together but that really varies family to family here in Namacha.  Some people eat alone, some peoples families eat at all different times and some people eat later around 8 or 9pm.   On the weekends sometimes we will have schedules group activities or plan a group trip to the city or to certain attractions in Namacha like the 3 point boarder of South Africa, Moz and Swaziland, the local waterfall or shoprite which is like a local flea market.   Sundays is usually everyones cleaning day when we do laundry, clean our rooms and water filters.     Its nice to have a routine but we are usually pretty busy which can get wearing after a while.  This week we have a community map due and we start a practicum with a community organization.  We interview a local organization, kind of a test run of what we will be doing at site, and come up with a training session on improvements for the organization.   I think this will be extremely useful in working out the kinks with our strategies!   Overall Im looking forward to going to site but its definitely hard to think of the next two years so im just taking it day by day J   

 Elysea