Bat Shit Crazy

March 12, 2011
It’s a crazy Saturday night at the Gordon house, Grace and I just finished eating dinner that I cooked, rice, fried fish, and greens. She’s making me practice like a 6 year old because Monday is “Guess who’s coming to dinner” and the Peace Corps staff is coming to make sure I’m not going to starve when I go to my site. Tomorrow I’m practicing the chow mein that I’ll cook on Monday. After dinner she promptly tuned into the “obits channel” which is playing Celine Dion with the death announcements.
Today was great! I slept in until 6:00am and met up with a group of girls to go to Georgetown to get fabric for our traditional sari’s for the swearing in ceremony. It was so much fun! We went shopping and went by the Peace Corps office and got the hell out of this village, it was great to get out and have a day off.
The bats are back, right on schedule! Yesterday there was bat shit on the bathroom sink and kitchen counter, two nights ago there was a baby tarantula on the outside of my mosquito net. I cried myself to sleep. Now the bats are back for the night, its only 6:20 and I’ve already seen 3!
Granny’s daughter has been in the hospital for 5 weeks now, she was told she had ovarian cancer and went through several rounds of chemo and didn’t have cancer. I’m not too sure what the details are about her current condition but last night Grace told me that she had to have a catheter and feeding tube put in and her organs are shutting down. It’s been tough to be here in the middle of such a major family crisis, Granny walks around praying out loud and singing gospel songs. She has spent all day every day for the last 2 ½ weeks in Georgetown at the hospital with her. Please keep Granny and Grace and the Gordon family in your thoughts and prayers.
I’m really excited about next week! Wednesday afternoon we’re going to Georgetown for our counterpart conference and Sunday we’re going to visit our site for 5 days!