Better feeling

Feeling Better!!!

SICK!!!

Ok so it happened to me. I got sick and im still sick and I have no idea how to deal with it here. I was able to deal with the slight stomache cause it was starting to go away but this extra crap from the high altitude trip yesterday and my sore muscles and the creamy poop I don’t know what to do. The peruvians here are just saying that I have the flu but I don’t think so because to me everything can be explained but then again it’s a possibility. And im really temped to just drink a few liters of water and have that flush out my system but when ever I drink water too fast right now I feel like im going to vomit (and im not sure if im not supposed to use vomit here cause when I say it they all look at me weird and say a different word) but I don’t really understand it and don’t feel well enough for them to explain to me bacuse I feel like that would be an even longer conversation. But I may just need to call the doctor because I feel really odd yesterday at high altitude I was fine to hike down the mountain for 2.5 hrs even though I could have taken a horse which now that I look back on it, it would have been better because all of my muscles are sore and im not sure if it was because of the hike o illness. Because I couldn’t catch my breathe when I walked up the hill to my house cause that’s just a 15 min walk but it took me nearly 30 mins and I couldn’t breathe after the first 50 ft or so, so im thinking that im just going to stay in bed like im doing right now.

Hopefully ill feel better soon in este aqui Peru

Royce

Post that i didnt review let it go

Hoy yo enquentre la primero voluntario de mi familia aqui en la cuidad cerca de la centro de entermiento (i completely just spelled that word wrong and others probably). Yo tengo no idea el visitio aqui asi cuando el entro yo solo oigo un gringo en la casa pero yo conezco las personas aqui en mi cuidad mucho asi yo conocer el estan no una persona de aqui y el caminio directamente en mi cuarto como estan un cosa tipico porwue el vivio aqui por tres meses como yo el el camina arriba la cerra cada dia como yo pero el estan flaco y ahoro no flaco y no quiero estar flaco solo fuerte pero yo estoy fuerte ahora asi yo estoy bien, ha ha ha.

But anyways he was back in the training center to learn about how he needed to do something because all of the volunteers have to take continuous training etc. (I have been putting etc with things and Spanish and people have let it go but I'm pretty sure there is something else that I should have been doing)

so ya back to the gringo. So PCVs are all pretty cool people its quite surprising I haven’t really found anyone that I don’t like, there are a few in my training group that I don’t trust but dislike no people seem to be cool chilled but there are a few that I put themselves first and have the entire time they have been here cause I only do it when I'm lazy but I talk to people and they know its coming compared to the others who will just dip out #fail. wow completely going on tangents with this one, people were making fun of me for having used twitter and there are some jovens that don’t know what twitter is seriously? You weren’t in a different country you watched TV you used the internet I think they were having some sort of serious technological, communicational, youth issue.

Ok so back to the other person that lived here first. He came back with one another person who he worked with at his site that he has been at for nearly two years in order to learn more and to teach a friend info that would be beneficial to them in order to advance the business. And he was from south Dakota. So for the record Oregon is not that out there south Dakota is #bow (again I have to use my twitter lingo somewhere) but apparently peace corps draws people from random places clearly its just that great of a place. Out of my group the most people are actually from Illinois but the part where there’s corn and the people say they’re from Chicago but in actually aren’t and the next biggest group is from Oregon! Yes Oregon. There are a lot of us we exist and were making a come back! It was also nice to talk to another volunteer that has gone through some other things here like I have its suprising dome of the comparisons that you have to adjust to something as simple as spices. Because very few people here use dry spices. They are all fresh and if it doesn’t easily grow here it probably doesn’t exist at a reasonable price. Another thing that I have found so odd here is that every juice is super sweet and coffee and chocolate too not candy but drinks all drinks that have sugar in them are pure sugar, syrup and something else that I cant remember how to translate. But toda de aqui drink wise is super sweet and the sugarfree things are either nasty or very expensive the version of crystal light here is called clight (they combined the name so smart) but its more expensive than the others almost 40% so many people don’t buy it. I tried it tastes just like crystal light. My family here doesn’t really like it its really different in comparison and the drink is thinner than the other drinks by a lot!

O and I also asked the other volunteer if I would ever be able to find any milk here because the milk here is far worse than whole milk in the US. First of all I already thought that whole milk tastes like cream but the milk here seems like heavy whipping cream. And its incredibly hard to get to fresh milk almost all milk here is canned and contains alot.

First Days

OMG I'm here in Peru with a bunch of other amazing other people and speaking to people in Spanish!!!! Wow didn’t expect it to be so difficult for as it has been to get accustomed to things here, as it has been. Something’s are as I expected and others I didn’t. Its weird I’m still learning about things that are happening here in Peru since I can’t manage to understand the language completely but I’m sure ill get it soon. There is no internet in my house so I have to walk down the street to the internet cafe from my house or the cafe near the training center I go to almost everyday to insert one of the following words (work, train, learn). So far it has been fun, enjoyable, eye opening and educational and I’m not regretting it!

Aqui en este Peru

6/4

Bog entry regarding BPA

When I preparing for graduation I was the typical college student finishing classes, taking finals, finalizing post grad plans (continuing with BPA). But it all changed when I got a blue envelope stating Peace Corps Invitee. Well actually an email saying simply stating 'peace corps status' change, and at that point I was still expecting to be able go back to work at BPA for a little less than a year. But anyways once I got the envelope I knew that my time had come. I was being called to do what I had spent the last 12+ months working towards researching and applying and all of the other little minute and enormous activities that needed to be done to know / be prepared / have completed all that is needed to actually have the opportunity to join the PC.

But after all the excitement of graduation and post grad vacation, It was time to return back to BPA to continue my plan as it had been previously set yet there was a change. I had previously thought about it, but put it to the back of my mind as I decided to be respectful and tell everyone in person rather than let people know from an email that got passed and might have missed some (sorry to all of you that you found out about that way it wasn’t my intention, NEWS JUST SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE). Upon the return on the dark day compared to the warm sunny weather I left! WHY PORTLAND WHY? I got back and things happened much as it had in the past. There was difficulty entering the building, comp issues you know the usual. But then once I got to my desk I realized people were gone. People had left the agency. I assumed that nothing would change but the shocking fact was that wow I spent a period of my life working with these people every summer and it was odd knowing that they aren’t in the cubicle next to you, and that you cant just go to another floor and say hi.

Everyone that I have had the opportunity to work with over the past summers it has been a opportunity that I have cherished and would to have loved to have come back to work with you all full time. But I need to follow my heart and go do well. I have been blessed to have the opportunity to meet some many great people and they have helped me in ways that they cant even begin to realize. So I need to go and pay it forward to someone that may not have been able to get a perspective that you may have shared with me.

You all will be missed. See you all again soon well at least 27 months later.

Soon to be in este Peru

Royce Haughton

Sorry for the lack of posts i have things to post but i havee tbeen to an internet cafe recently with my flash drive which i have my blog posts saved to.

One of theses days i will bring it so that i can post it until then sorry

Ill let you all know whats going on with the updates later

Soy en Peru

I have been in training and i do not have a constant internet connection and am using internet cafes as of now so there is your fyi if i dont respond to you if you email me right away.

Will post more soon .


Aqui en este Peru

Royce Haughton

Epiphany

Its 2:30 am PST and for some reason it just hit me, well not really but kinda. I only have 10 days left here in the the US of A. And i have all these feelings about it: excitement, fear, frustration, joy etc. but why? I'm here with people and I'm going to be there with people. People are people and I've always felt that way so why am i so worried? is it the location? No. I don't care about the location although i do prefer water access (water is so freeing I suggest you go swimming after reading this water is good for you)

Could it be lack of knowing the language? Nah. Although it is causing some frustration and anticipation my language skills are progressing slowly but surely. What could it be? Is it that people are telling me that I'm going to change and the experiences are going to change me? Maybe that's the only thing that i can really think of. to best explain it I'm going to do something bad... I'm going to quote Sarah Silverman ugh! i cant believe I'm doing this but then again it is 2:30 in the morning. and i have no idea if this is true or not cause i didn't watch lost it seemed dumb to me. (and unknown persons seems like its gunna be a copy of lost or its gunna be like the 4400 and if it is someone please send it to me) neways she said that the people lost on the island were living their lives at different times but the island altered time so they all lived at the same time but they didn't but they did but only on the island or something like that. SO i feel like I've been living my life in these three different worlds all within the US of course from the 3 places I've lived keeping up with all the politics, past experiences, future experiences, relationships etc. as they take place, there when I'm there, when I'm away and when I'm virtually there. (just because i mentioned technology doesn't mean I'm having pre-departure remorse over technology ill miss it for a while but really i don't need technology you all need it to contact me so HA!) But as i prepare to add another world to intertwine with the others i wonder if it will fade into the past like summer camps past or Mexico or maybe I'm just now feeling the remorse from graduating NOT! although i do miss my friend and the realization that i wont see them again next year like before is saddening but that's why we have networks like Facebook and hopefully everyone will keep the same email address since some people have already planned to change their phone numbers.

But neways I'm excited about leaving for Peru! with the 56? others i don't know if they will all be doing the same work as i will but it will be interesting and exciting to meet them. A few of them graduated as Spanish majors so my Spanish is no where near theirs so i clearly have some work to do since they're typing messages in Spanish which I'm happy to say that i was able to decipher without the use of a translator it did take me a while to figure out a couple of words.

Those of you still in DC ill see you soon others of you i still have a week here although I'm working and I'm going to go see Shrek so those of you that want to join are welcome. Also how about you all follow the blog just reading the blog is going to have you confused and you'll miss your shout out @Hutch_Jessica ha did it and you wont even know.

Soon to be in este aqui Peru

Royce