June 13, 2008

I went to work this Monday and found out that Uriel had run away over the weekend. Tuesday night, Toribio ran away too. The centre is not the same without them. I miss them terribly and hate to think where they might end up. On Thursday the stress of the week really caught up with me. I felt like a little kid. I was so incredibly exhausted, I got home from work and just started crying for no reason, and then I had a three hour siesta. All week at work they cancelled the daily lesson and just watched movies. The rainy season started on the weekend and the boys had been getting really restless and aggressive; fighting a lot and what-not. So, to calm them down, they put on a least one movie each day.

I got a new roommate on Monday. Her name is Jess, she’s 23 and from England. I’m so happy to have a roommate again. I was so bored and lonely without one. Jess is great. I couldn’t have asked for a better roomie. Her placement with Projects Abroad is at a nursery/daycare sort of place for a couple of months.

Other than that not a whole lot have been going on. There are three other volunteers who came on Monday also. They are from Scotland doing a paediatric nursing placement at a nursery in a town about 20 minutes from Guzmán. They will only be in Guzmán for three weeks and then they go to Guadalajara for another three. Kristen and Tyler left today which makes me a little sad. It really sucks staying here for so long because everyone keeps leaving. It seems the standard placement length in one month. In the time that I am here in Guzmán I will see five volunteers come and go. But, I only have four more weeks at my placement before I’m off to Guadalajara. It seems so crazy that I have been here seven weeks already and I will be home in ten more. I count my time in weeks now; ten weeks feels a lot shorter than two and a half months.

I can’t wait to come home. As much as I love it here, and as much as I love my work, I miss home so much. Way more than I thought I would. I think I’m actually getting quite tired of travelling on my own. I so badly want to share all this with someone. I’m also getting really tired of using internet cafes all the time. I just want to be able to turn on my computer and have internet. I have discovered that I can take my laptop down to the town centre and have free wireless internet there. But, that still means I have to walk all the way down to the town centre. Yes, I’m lazy, I know. Through all my travels in the last year or so, I am really starting to appreciate Canada (and even Saskatoon) for all that it is. You don’t realize what a great place Canada really is until you’ve lived anywhere else, I think. And I’m not saying that just because I can get internet in my room… I mean everything: healthcare, education, social programs, standard of living… the list goes on.