The Last of the Down Days

Well it looks like today was the last of the slow days. I met with the guy who runs a lot of stuff out here today for lunch and turns out I'm leaving tomorrow for a few days. The game plan is that I'm meeting a guy, who turns out is really good friend with a girl I went to school with at HSU (talk about a small world), and we're going to go work on a dam or something way out in the sticks. I'm not 100% sure where it'll be but I've been told it involves a bus ride or something and then a 10 mile hike down to the site that we are working at. We'll spend a day or two down there and then head back. If we get lucky I think we can basically hitch a ride back up with someone, but if we aren't lucky, and from the sound of it odds are we won't be, we'll have to hike back up the 10 miles. So that'll be an adventure to say the least. I'm pretty excited about it though. We'll be working on some stuff that is like what I would like to be doing over here and it'll be a really good learning experience. Can't say I'm all that excited about the hike though. I'm not exactly in marathon shape anymore and living on rice and pig liver for the past couple weeks isn't exactly doing much for my energy. Luckily I've had a few days to veg out and catch up on sleep. I went over to my friends house after we figured all this out at lunch to borrow some more gear and ended up getting ambushed by his 3 oldest kids (they have 4, and the oldest just turned 6). Anyways, I spent a good chunk of the afternoon hanging out with them and catching up on my Peter Pan and Bernstein Bears reading. It was a good break. I spent the night hanging out with Stinky and her roommate. I'm going to have to change her nickname because turns out she can actually read this. I thought she couldn't because I was told you can't read blogs out here. I can't actually read the blog even though I'm writing it, basically I just get an error screen when I click on it. Gotta love no freedom of press. So from now on I'll just refer to her as A_, which I think is way less fun but it'll work. Any way, the three of us walked around for a while and got some gelato, which not going to lie, was pretty amazing. And I don't think it was one of those "haven't had good food in a while amazing", I think it would have been amazing in the states too. There has been a lot of change out here since I was here 3 years ago and there are a lot more western types of stuff. Well any way, I need to crash because tomorrow is going to be a LONG day. I'll post some stuff from my journal on here after I get back on Saturday or Sunday.