One Hot Mama!

Today (Friday) I wasn’t really in
my prime. I spent all morning doing yard work, which I love doing, but I was
all by myself for a lot of it. I’m not used to doing work by myself the guys
are usually around and we can have long conversations serious or not serious
things. Nope today was just me and my broom sweeping up leaves. Yes you heard
me right sweeping leaves, I even used a dustpan.

I needed a crew so I “hired� a few
part timers. I’m not sure of their names but one was in charge of moving the
wheelbarrow and the other holding my water bottle. They did a good job and put
up with the crazy American girl talking to them in English about things they
didn’t even understand. We swept away for a good hour or two. Still though I
felt like something was missing…

I feel like I haven’t really found
my niche in what I was supposed to be doing or where I was supposed to be doing
it.  Others on the team just have
really been able to find a place they are comfortable in and just soar. So in
the afternoon I took a nap and just was in a somber mood. I didn’t really know
what to do and it was evident to everyone else that something was up.

Then that evening we were running a
volleyball tournament for the women in town.  They needed some Americans to be on each team. So Tricia and
I got placed on a team. They were all pretty excited. When asked what the team
name was the replied the Hot Mama’s.
haha So that evening we played on the Hot Mama’s, it was a lot of fun! We lost
both games L
but we had fun doing it!

It was good to be involved after
such a down in the dumps kind of day.  I was able to interact with the community with out any
language skills and make some people smile! A success in my eyes!