At the Internet Cafe! (Woot!!)

So here I am at the Internet Cafe with my fellow volunteer Eden. She and I are crying pretty regularly reading the emails from home. My 2 year old niece is apparently asking for me, which kills me. She thinks that I live with Shrek in Far Far Away.

It's almost harder being in contact with your family than it is not.

Yesterday a bunch of us went walking around the town - it has two main roads, and no direct roads connecting the two... only alleys. I was taken by my family a crazy loooong way around to get to school, and knew there had to be a short cut to get to the main town road. Which I found, eventually, after wandering for an hour in alleys, running into grandmother's and kids every two minutes, all staring at the lost American.

I feel like I've been here a year, and a day, all at once. I wish it was a year later, I want to see my family. It's crazy how I could live away from them in Chicago effortlessly, but this is a lot harder. It's possibly harder because I can't talk to them, and can't, you know, talk to anybody really.

Very disappointed in the primary results. Not cool, zeus, not cool.