Happy Birthday Mom II - From Usher

Me and Usher after he gave dance lessons to the youth at our 'house of youth'. ha!

I dont see too many look alikes around these parts, but from time to time i hit the jackpot! there is one kid that kinda looks like donnie osmond, maybe ill get his picture and upload it. there is also a kid that reminds me of carrol burnett - but that would be rude of me to post his picture and say he looks like a girl .

anyway, i have done my laundry and the rain seems to be keeping away - for now. i also went to the public showers again and the water was hot the entire time! it was great. now im clean, i have clean clothes drying on the line... life is good. when i got to the showers (a short walk from our house) the lights were off in all of the individual showers. i was kinda excited because it would have been a fun opportunity for me to use one of the many flashlights i carry with me wherever i go... but they got the lights working before i even had a chance to whip out a flashlight. oh well.

i also got to talk to my (real) mom because today is her birthday. i only had to try to call from 5 different phones and have two people help me before i finally got to talk to her. happy birthday mom.

peace corps asks us to do nice things for our families while we are staying with them - help around the house, buy laundry detergent, help out by buying things we use often. anway, i thought it would be fun if i bought some pasteries and took them home so we could have them after dinner.

i bought some pasteries and left them in the kitchen. we had dinner... but no pasteries after. the next morning we had pasteries for breakfast (along with other more nutritious stuff, of course). i was happy.

little did i realize that i would be having pasteries for breakfast (new pasteries - not the pasteries i bought) for breakfast for the next few days. it was a funny experience becasue i didnt mean to imply that i wanted pasteries often - i just thought it would be fun for a change, a one time thing.

i love my family. they are great people.

to finish things off here is a picture of me on a lovely tree-lined street near one of the schools where we went and shared with the students about protecting the environment.