Housekeeping Pics

Here are a random assortment of pictures, that I've been meaning to put up forever. They each tell a bit about life/things/habbits.

Here is my bike. Peace Corps paid for it. I bought it at a Walmart of sorts, and it was worth what I paid for. Maybe I should have been a bit more ...with my money, but returning things are really hard here.
A man who owns a store in our village picked up the bike with his supplies to bring it back.
The new mayor and his secretary went out to buy the bike with me...why? because he was the new mayor and he wanted to be a part of my volunteer life. Hey look MOM! I have a reason to use the camel back you gave me!!! I can drink while ridding now!

Here is a picture of Sunday's traffic. Everyone takes out their horse drawn carts to go to the Sunday market. We aren't allowed to work on Sundays here, and sometimes on random days I don't understand. Like this Wednesday we weren't allowed to do chores: washing clothes, gardening, etc... We way don't have this in my family in America. In my fam: Saturday = errand day, and Sunday = clean the whole house day and try to relax after too.

Here's a pic of my necklace!!! I wear it almost every day! When I don't, I wear the starfish necklace Aunty Anna gave me for graduation, but most of the time I wear this. It's like my trademark, and if you look closely here: you can see that I have a star shaped untanned mark on my chest. THAT'S how often I wear it, and I love it Charm, Thanks!





I was...I do play golf while I sweeping apples up in my yard for my compost pile. They have worms already installed and ready to merge [m-aiy-rjay](go or work). I put mostly. That is a broom we use here, and they're short for some reason: the top measures a little high than my knees.





Here is the kitten, he is a brat, and he's fluffy and cute and attacks my feet when I'm not looking.

Cats stay outside.

I don't know if he's smart or dumb cause he likes to attack the shovel too when I'm using it, and I Swear he's going to lose a paw that way.

Package#2 - highly suspicious

The first package I got, from mom, I took no picture of.
It contained things such as seeds, yellow curry, dried chinese roots, teas and chopsticks.

I've since made curry chicken and I drank some of that tea (cause of the throat thing).

2nd package =)
I think I had my suspicions when I'd heard who was ganging together to send it.
I got: The most scump (expensive) [sk-oomp] toilet paper in Romania!
I was told to tell these friends (by people who saw the contents of my package), that there's toilet paper in Romania, and it's affordable. =p

About 11 hours after the package content police and I shuffled through this, I discovered the REAL reason behind this gift:
I got 3.98 rolls of better absorbing toilet paper from the US (due to the fact that 0.02 of the paper had a message on it, and I CAN'T WIPE MYSELF with that part!).

It got torn on its journey across the Atlantic, but I puzzled it back together.

Bonus gift, my friend (since 7th grade)'s mother owns a cat product company called Johnson's Pet Products (advertisement in exchange for the gift) so they sent me a thing of catnip too, for my neighbor's cats...or maybe for the cat I said I was going to get, but never did.
BTW: I'm not getting a cat. I have bug problems, and I can play with the dogs and cats and chickens outside my apt.
I filled a sock, and threw it outside, I'm seen no traces...