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| Fish in the bottom of a canoe at Libanona Beach. |
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| Tatum writing postcards at Israel's house. |
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| Tortoises in Hotel Anita's courtyard. |
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| Monica giving a lecture in English at the Cultural Center |
Fort Dauphin
Well... no cyclone.
We’ve had rain: a handful of sunshowers that each lasted no more than a few minutes. But nothing close to a proper thundershower, let alone a hurricane.
Harry, Tatum, and Wes arrived from the west on Sunday. All of us except Jess checked into the Hotel Anita, which Peace Corps had booked for us until Thursday. It’s nice; apparently it was a favored hotel for Volunteers until they raised their prices a few years ago.
And... nothing much has happened. I helped at the Cultural Center on Sunday and Monday, then ran some errands. Went to the beach, chilled out at Freedom Bar, watched some of Harry’s movies. Really the most exciting thing that has happened to me since arriving here has been Monica’s downloading the fifth Game of Thrones novel onto her Kindle and letting me borrow it. She’s still on the fourth book.
We also had our VAC meeting Monday night. Since all of us were here, it doesn’t make sense for us to reconvene in Ambovombe in just another week. Most of the meeting was just untangling a series of rumors about whether Peace Corps is going to place any more Volunteers down here in the South.
So we all got a regional reunion, and a few days that might have been spent huddled inside were instead filled with sun, friends, drink, and good books. Tant mieux, Peace Corps. Tant mieux.
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