Wednesday will be my 24th birthday, and the first one I’ve celebrated outside of my country. I have to say that I am pretty satisfied with my life at this point. I am living in Africa, which is one of the coolest experiences of my life. I am teaching which I am actually finding fun because of my students. I am fluent in my third language, and have yet to get malaria or any other serious disease. Life in Angonia has really been coming around. My roommate and I have been making friends out in the community and so we are starting to feel really integrated. The kapulanas I buy at the market are now only 90 mts each (as opposed to 100 mts) which means the vendor is starting to recognize me and want my business. My school collegues are starting to realize that I in fact DO speak Portuguese (how they just assume I only speak English is beyond me). I am really coming to realize that I’ll be living here for the next 2 years. Crazy enough that is the longest consecutive time I’ll have lived in one place since I moved out to college at age 18.
To celebrate on Wednesday, first off I have to teach classes all afternoon. My wonderful roommate is a great baker so we’ll have a few of our friends over for some cake or some other yummy dessert. Then all of the Tete volunteers are going to come up to Angonia around the 18th for a joint my birthday/St. Patrick’s day party so the real celebrating will have to wait until then. Eddie is going to go check for packages in Malawi again on Monday so hopefully I’ll actually have some presents to open on the day of my bday, but we’ll see!!
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