October 15, 2010

This week, hmmm, a word to describe it. Okay, maybe three words, recovery, change, and slow.  Everyone seems to become recovering pretty well from the events that happened last Friday.  For some it’s still a little hard to sleep at night and sometimes you feel like someone is watching you, but we are able to talk about it as a team and help each other out.  Because of the robbery on Friday we are making a lot of rule changes here at the base.  As of right now, I don’t really have a defined job because the mobile team that I was a part of is being reevaluated for safety.  There are three girls on the mobile team and so we need to figure out what would be the safest way to do our jobs, so in about a week we’ll find that out.  A few other changes such as curfew have been adjusted as well and more lights are going to be installed at the base.  So, this week to keep myself busy I’ve been helping to do a lot of cooking and cleaning.  The first two days this week we had to reorganize our dental boxes and re-sterilize all of our instruments, but the rest of the days we’ve cleaned the houses really well and prepared for our visitors that we are going to have next week!  It’s also really exciting that they’re coming because they are bringing boxes of stuff to replace the stuff that the girls had stolen last week!

In my cooking adventures this week, I learned how to make Locro. It is a fairly popular Peruvian dish that is chockfull of vegetables. It’s made from sapallo, which is a yellow pumpkin/squash, and then after it’s broken down into a puree with sautéed garlic and onions you add potatoes, carrots, peas, and celery.  After those are cooked you add a little bit of milk and about a cup and a half of crumbled cheese and then pour it over rice! It’s soo amazing! It’s a very good dish. 

Last night was a lot of fun because we had a nail painting party! I scrubbed my feet in a bucket with a spa scrub that mom had bought for me and then Miss Rachel so kindly painted my toes! It was so fun and a very pampered feeling. Lol. I think four of us got our toe nails painted and our eyebrows done last night. Lol. It was so much fun, but of course as soon as we walked outside again our feet were dusty-dirty. Not much else happenin´right now! Have a happy Sabbath everyone!