Buenos dias,

So i read my blog for the first time, (Im too lazy to reread what i write) and i realized its not that great. I cant use my computer to write thoughtful or funny material so i go to the cybers and quickly through soming on the world wide web. I get so frustrated in there and want to leave rapido so i apologize


any whoo, my town of Mastepe is begining the fiestas patronales today with bigtime parties in the streets, although at night its suposedly super scetchy. ohh well. and the peace corps told us that everyone will be looking at us so we cant do anything stupid, which as you all know i wouldn{t do anyway.

today, in the jewish religon is the sabbath, observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. well for me not soo much, not because im anti'semetic, but because we had to do our 6th long day of work in a row for the peace corps by attending a conference.

this included us learning how to start and run our community micro'finance banks. pretty cool and interesting stuff if you ask me. Brievfly this includes us finding people to participate that will elect 4 members, president, box keeper, secretary and auditor. all members will put in a weekly, bi weekly or monthly allotment of money into this comunity bank. this capital will be used for the lending of micro loans to people in the comunity who will then have to pay back the loan, usually in a months time, with a set interest rate that they decide upon, usually 5 to 10%. after a year or 6 months of putting money into the bank and aquiring interest through loans, the money is liquidated and divided acordingly to the people that participated in the bank. The idea is to promote savings and fiscal responsabilty to people in a culture that are not accustomed to doing so. this process will comence again imediatly after the funds are dispersed. they restart this process so people can realize the potential of their savings, and not have it just sit in the box forever, also all 3 head members each get a key so the box with the money can{t be opened with out all 3 present.

on a side note, it rained so im not sweating as much. also im gettting a phone tuesday, ill put my number up so if anyof you feel like im worth 20 cents a minute you can all me.

I hope all is well over there, and p.s. can somebody f'ing stop the oil spill. im come on this is getting a bit rediculous. where are the nasa engineers when you need them.

Ohh and ill put up pics when I take some!
peace out suckas