Project hope is also chill, maybe a bit to chill. Right now the city is between a large festival ending and ramadan beginning. In addition to that classes are ending exam week is happening and prom is next week. Learning english is not on the top of most peoples priority lists.
My mission here feels as if it is changing, I an only here for 2 weeks, so today I will be observing classes, and hopefully by the end of next week I will have gotten the opportunity to teach a few, and assist in a few also.
With my minimal amount of volunteering and quite a bit of free time this next two weeks with be me working on myself.
So I have set goals. I live in a house with 4 other women, so I will be cooking, food here is extremely cheap, so I have a goal of cooking 4 dishes I have never cooked before, and also cooking what every I can find for the other nights, it seems I will be cooking for the whole house, which I have come to not mind at all.
Also, I would like to finish the book the Iron Cage, which is about Palestine and its struggle for independence. The first book I will be reading of my own accord since last summer, I am very excited to gain a better academic understanding of this occupation.
With the amount of Nutella I have eaten in the last 2 days, I want to exercise, but here with the conservative culture and the extreme heat, I think that means aerobics or Yoga on the porch. I want to create a routine that I can do in the house that will be a good 30 minute work out. (I also want to get over this weird awkward feeling of working out in a house)
Last I want to develop my plans for my tiny house with more detail, and keep up with this blog.
Hopefully writing these goals down can keep me on track.
I am planning on going to Petra Jordan before I leave, and possibly Cairo also! Life is lovely.. and I cannot wait to see what progress I make with these intentions.
No comments:
Post a Comment