Prior to joining the Peace Corps, everyone told me that one of the hardest things about being a Peace Corps volunteer was dealing with all of the down-time that you have. They said that it’s all of those extra hours when you’re not working and haven’t much to do, when reading just isn’t an option anymore because you’ve read too much, it’s those surplus hours that make you go stir-crazy. Now that I’m a Peace Corps volunteer, I’m trying to figure out where all of my down-time is hiding? I want to find those hours upon hours where there’s nothing to do and no place to go. What happened to them? When do I get to spend an entire day in my house curled up on my bed with a good book and a bowl of popcorn? =)
As a Peace Corps volunteer I don’t find that I have all these hours to sit around and contemplate boredom. I work regular work hours five days a week and rarely (and by rarely I mean never) have time at work to just sit around and be bored. By the time I get home in the evening there’s always something to be done… tutoring the neighborhood kids, spending time with local friends and Peace Corps volunteers, cooking food for the next day/week, doing chores around the house. My life here in many ways is like my life at home, filled with work and things to do.
I think this business of keeping busy all of the time is good but it’s also affecting my blogging. There’s too much to do and not very much time to sit down and write about all that I’m doing. Also, the more time I spend in Antigua, the more ordinary my life feels and the less I feel I have to write about. Requests have been made however that I become a more frequent blogger so I will make an effort to do that. Maybe I’ll set a goal to write every other week? That should be manageable I think. =)
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