Drumroll Please

Here is my much-anticipated interview. Jackie did a great job, especially for it being her first interview! Please excuse the echo-y room, loss of power due to a hail storm, and my mumbling. Thanks to everyone who sent in questions. Disfruta!

P.S. It is (clearly) very difficult for me to introduce myself in interviews. I'm very awkward and don't really listen to what I'm saying. Many apologies to Hokies all over for referring to our great university as "Virginia Tech University" rather than the two acceptable options-- Virginia Tech or Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I'm so embarassed!!!

I'm FAMOUS!!!

Well, I'm famous amongst a few people who surf the World Wide Web and read the MPI Ecuador Blog (Open Hands and Dirty Feet). I wrote a guest blog yesterday, so make sure to check it out!

Click here to read my guest blog.

As always, thanks for staying tuned!

In my famous panama hat with the famous Ronald McDonald

What do you mean by busy day?

I know you have heard of the elusive "business" that consumes so many of my days. Today I decided I'd let all my readers know what exactly I mean.

My schedule today:
6:45am-- Rise and shine
7:15am-- Leave the house and catch a bus to Rumiloma
8:00am-9:00am-- Morning Women's Exercise Class
9:15-- Catch a bus home to Conocoto
10:00am-- Arrive home and jump in the shower
10:30am-- Leave the house and catch a bus to Sangolqui
11:00am-1:30pm-- Shop for the soon-to-be kitchen in our "Centro de Manna"
We ran around between 3 different stores to buy everything from bowls, cutting boards, and
forks to an oven, a table, and pans. We hope to have everything installed and the kitchen by
the end of this quarter, so we can start cooking classes as soon as possible.
1:30pm-- Load the camioneta with all of our goodies
1:45pm-- Unload all of our goodies from camioneta and into the third floor of our Centro
2:15pm-- Catch a bus home to Conocoto
3:00pm-- Arrive home and print the quiz and "Song-of-the-day" for Adult English Class
3:45pm-- Leave the house to make copies for Adult English
4:00pm-- Catch a bus to Rumiloma
5:00-6:45pm-- Teach Adult English (emotions, present simple of "to be", sentance structure...
our class is AWESOME!!)
7:00pm-- Get in a camioneta to go home
7:30pm-- Arrive home, grab dinner, and immediately start our Spring Break meeting (over
dinner)
8:30pm-- Have a nutrition "pre-meeting" to get ready for the meeting we're having with
Alinambi tomorrow morning about the nutrition program
9:00pm-- Write tomorrow's guest blog for Open Hands and Dirty Feet

PHEW. 3 hours of transportation, 3 visits to the library, and 2 meetings later.... I'm going to bed.
Sweet dreams, world wide web.

Guest Blogger

Every week we have a guest blogger on our MPIE blog, and this week it happened to be yours truly. So check out my post and leave comments; we love knowing who follows along. Also, the Manna Blog is updated daily, and it's definitely worth the read to see how we're doing as a group. I'll post back here very, very soon... promise.