Wednesday, May 31, 2006

1.5 weeks and a cell phone!

Well I have completed 1.5 weeks of official Peace Corps Service!!!!!!!! I wrote this great email tactfully describing how this has be THE hardest adjustment in my life, i don´t need to rehash it again and i´ll actually downplay it with the following bullet points, use your imagination to begin to understand why i wanted to go home everyday last week:

-Food is new and different and greasy
-Cleanliness is on a whole nother scale of relativity
-Sleeping WAS effected by cleanliness and odors but now it is not because of certain effective ´adjustments´ - my D.C. staging officer would be proud
-MUSIC is cool here, most every store and house is blasting some sort of music from reggae to reggeaton to 80´s American pop to latin music.
-btw right now Whitney Houston is ripping it up with I Will Always Love You in the computer lab-
-another btw, they had a country wide Grammy-like awards show on the public TV channel last night, it was inspiring like most awards shows are for me. And I would like everyone to check out a CD titled ¨Reggae from Costa Rica¨ and ¨Mekatelu¨ pronounced (Me Kan tell you) These were two CD´s that were nominated for the best carribbean music and the latter one won! I´m gonna pick up these CD´s as soon as I can find them here, but they may be available online if you wan a taste of the sound of Costa Rica!

Ok and the BEST PART!!! I HAVE A CELL PHONE!!! It makes me feel SO much better out here because I have access to emotional support and conversations with my loved ones, I was telling millie last night it helps me feel like we´re just living parallel lives in different places and not like i´m lost on some deserted Spanish speaking spaceship place. I feel so much more equipped with the cell phone.

EVERYONE: you can call me at country code 506 858-29-36

My mom bought a phone card for $4 and got 50 minutes to talk to me, so I think this should all be within ya´lls budgets. Also, I tried to call Drew Amma and Leon and the calls didn´t go thru, it may be because your phones won´t accept the interntional calls, so if anyone wants me to call them successfully, please go to make sure your phone will receive international calls from country code 506!

Ok LOOOOOOOOOVE I go now to check email!!

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got your message and tried to call you back. I was just able to leave my name, so I don't know if you even got that I called. You know I am going to burst if I called you and it cost me 100.00 just to leave my name.

I am going to get a phone card so I can, as well, talk to you for 50 min. Girl, for you to say something is dirty--it must be! LOL

Let me know if you need anything.

3:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

p.s. that was me, L Boogie

3:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heeyyyy! Joya I miss you! I will get a phone card this weekend, so I can call you.

Love you,

"Him"

10:58 AM  
Blogger Mike said...

Joya,

Here are some PC / Costa Rica blogs that I have found. If you know of any others that I have missed please let me know. Thanks!


-Mike Sheppard
RPCV / The Gambia
www.journeyacrossafrica.blogspot.com


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http://becca-in-costarica.blogspot.com/
http://www.geocities.com/lock2010/
http://joyagreen.blogspot.com/
http://labellashabana.livejournal.com/
http://morningskymagnolias.blogspot.com/
http://www.nicoyano.com/gpage2.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010618211820/www.erslah.com/hotpca/stories.htm
==

4:15 PM  

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