Machete

I have been doing such difficult labor lately and there is only more in store, as I can tell from the fact that today I got my very own machete. I hope we start having guests so I stop having occasions to use the machete and just get to carry it around with me places instead. We had a tour yesterday for the first time since I got here and the hotel was buzzing with such a nice of feeling of people getting things done and cooking big meals and practicing their English. The guests were a couple from Washington DC who traveled all the way here to see our garden because they are really into the company that buys all of our organic herbs and sells them in the United States, New Chapter.

After four hours of cutting and moving and digging and planting, I am off work for the day and my weekend starts momentarily. I don´t have any plans, as usual, but will probably get in some good reading and spend some time with my family. It is getting pretty hot out and I might take the opportunity to swim in the resort´s freshwater pool.

Things are still really lonely here but next month we are booked solid with conferences and the month after I have slowly but surely assembled an amazing cast of visitors to keep me company. Furthermore, this morning my parents changed my ticket home, so I will be returning home on May 7, 2008 instead of June 1, 2008. Changing the ticket makes me feel sort of cowardly, but it is still a very long time to be in a foreign country and I haven´t decided to give up and go home immediately. I just don´t think I will want to be here for all of May once it rolls around. I guess even if it makes me a little bit of a coward, the prospect of my newly changed ticket has eased a lot of my anxiety about living here.

I hope everybody is well,
Kelly