Sorry it´s been so long

Things that have happened:

- Noche San Pedrino- The biggest street festival of the year. The same dancing as before, traditional dress. But this time it´s at night and everyone just keeps giving each other alcohol. I was still feeling sick during the day, just tired (getting over a head cold) and so I slept from 2pm to 9pm. I woke up, thinking I´d have a banana for dinner and go back to sleep, when the Ubermench says, hey you going to the party? Yeah, I´m going to the party. And so we get on a bus with some group who´s staying in the barracks housing on the farm, and who should I run into, but the guy I sat next to on the plane ride here. No joke. So weird. So we get there and there are fireworks and french fries and dancing and dancing. Of course we joined in, adopted by pueblo Rosario Lindo.
It is rude to refuse drinks in this country. I have never been so drunk in my entire life, not even when I was in a Manhattan dive bar making lascivious comments at an ex. Staggering through the streets at 2 am with the other volunteers. And I still didn´t get a hangover. Ha!

-Building the oven- We finally scavenged the metal to build the oven. Oh it is so beautiful. It needs to dry a week, and then we can bake in it. Oh I am in love. So happy. I´ll try to post a picture eventually. I only have shitty disposable film cameras, but my friends took pictures.

-The English Patient- The best book ever. Read it!

-Learning to make fried fish- Lucia, one of the women who lives on the foundation, taught me to make fried fish. You gut them and shave off the scales. Then you puree celery, garlic, onion, cilantro, a red pepper, salt, a little water, and cumin. Cut slashes in the fish´s sides, and cut each one in half. Cover it in the marinade, filling the slashes with the paste. Let sit if there´s time to marinate. When ready to cook, coat in flour and fry in oil in a frying pan. While they were cooking, Lucia and I talked a lot. She had all 5 kids by the time she was my age, hates her husband. I wondered why I deserved such confidence. She told me, don´t marry until you are 35 or 40. Keep your freedom. And all this in Spanish.

-Fainting!- I fainted for the first time last night. I woke up, ate rice pudding, fruit, later had more fruit, some popcorn, then more fruit, then chocolate, then more chocolate, then icecream cake. I took a nap that evening because I felt tired. When I got up, I went into the kitchen where Lani was making dinner. In the middle of a conversation, I felt super faint and dizzy, and the last thing I remember was putting my head on this guy´s shoulder. Then I was sitting on the floor, someone giving me a glass of water and trying to move me to the bed. No, I need to just sit here. No I can´t drink the water yet. I think I¨m going to throw up. And then I slowly began to feel better, ate some french fries, and was fine. Ate a delicious chicken strogenough dinner.

-Giant Spider in the bathroom!- Giant spider. I ran away.

-Freedom day- In honor of fourth of July, we are having Freedom Day at the volunteer house tonight. Everyone has to cook an American food. Which is hard, because there are about 10 of us and there are not that many American foods. I should have volunteered to make Gumbo, but I didn´t think of it until just now, so I´m making apple pie. That´s English, they say. Yeah, well, we´re mongrels, right? Other menu items are salsa, mac and cheese, peanut butter cookies, hush puppies, hamburgers, and coke. Oh boy.

I love you all!!!!