All of Tete Together

Life in site during the school year gets so busy time just flies by. Janet was a little sick, so she was in bed part of this week, so Luc was extra busy trying to cover her classes. No, there are no substitute teachers we can call to fill in with situations like this. Here in Moz if a teacher is absent, kids just have free time. We try as best we can to make up the lost hour on Saturday or when the kids are free when someother teacher is out. No worries though, Janet is fine. We thought it might have been malaria, but after consulting our doctor it seems more likely to have been the flu or some other virus that resolved itself after some conserted rest. Before we realize it, its already been an entire month without seeing any of our colleagues from PC Mozambique. So with St Patrick's day and a birthday earlier this month as excuses we all got together for the weekend hosted by our buddies up in Angonia. We all talked pretty much non-stop since we all
live in relatively isolated sites in our already isolated corner of Mozambique and don't usually get to hear so many stories and exciting news. It was invigorating to appreciate how much all our new volunteers have developed as teachers over the course of the first trimester. Weighing the good and the bad of our collective experience it seems like we're coming out on the positive side so far, which is encouraging considering how many challenges schools present here. Even more exciting was to hear about who has started dating Mozambicans here in Tete and getting a month's worth of gossip about the larger Peace Corps Mozambique community. Some major revelations included learning that one of the volunteers from our training cohort was sent home for breaking some sort of PC rule, which was disappointing to hear, and that two volunteers from the new group have fallen in love with each other and decided to get married here in country, which was very exciting
to hear! Mostly here in Peace Corps we just occasionally need some time out to relax with friends.