Hello family! Man has it been a while, it feels like it has been more than a month here in Myanmar! I have a lot to fill all y’all in! Well as you know, I was living in Metta, which was a meditation retreat for the two weeks of the beginning of my PST (pre service training). Metta was so amazing. I honestly don't know how to describe Metta. It was peaceful, ecological, magical & absolutely memorable. I got EXTREMELY close with some people out here including the staff. I met an amazing woman, AT. She was my favorite one to wake up to as she had a fried egg ready for me every morning, a cup of coffee before my language session and a huge
smile with always a reply to my hair that day, my eyes, my “cute and loose” outfits and my “lha lha heart.” Which means my beautiful heart. I will miss her dearly but I know I’ll be around.
I also met my best friends here at Metta. Jason, Katie, Emily, Zach, Quinn, Love and honestly everyone in our MM5 group. I have never felt so much support from so many people in my whole entire life. Two days ago, I had to say goodbye to all of them and honestly it was the worst thing I felt in a while. We all were split into 3 groups which go off into the city Bago in three different hotels for the remaining of the two months for our PST. I’m at an amazing hotel, though! WE HAVE HOT WATER GUYS! It’s not hot but it will definitely
be better than showering with 30 degree temperature water at night. I also miss my frog friends, their cute faces coming out of the drains, toilets and even my bed was my favorite thing about Metta (call me crazy!)
My hotel is RIGHT next to my host family and my school where I am going to be at for the next two months. I LOVE IT. These children are tooooo flippin cute, and the parents are the nicest people I have ever met. They feed you until you look like you’re legit going to pop, they make you drink lots of water, they put thanika (sunblock in the Myanmar culture) all over your face even though we are already so pale, they treat you like a royal princess/price & they really take you in as their own child. My host mom and dad are absolutely so beautiful, my host sister is 19 years young and I also have the cutest cousins EVER! My host mom always gives money to my little cousin to buy me water bottles, my favorite chocolate filled crackers ( I still have 6 bags with me because she buys 3 a time, and CANNED ESPRESSO!!!!!! Not the best, but honestly if I can receive a taste of espresso from the Angels above I will take it any day. I’ll have my host family for my remaining time here in Bago before I take off to my site. They have helped me a lot getting evolved in the Myanmar Culture and helping me cope with my home sickness back in America. I can’t wait to fill more information for y’all in my next post!
Its Sunday here and I’ve been in bed all damn day in a great air conditioned room. I have been thinking a lot today about my passions, goals, future, and present feelings. Guys it’s lonely as hell here, even though I have great friends here with me still I’m lonely as HELL & honestly I really don’t mind it....It is a great time for me to reflect on my life, reflect on my world I live in. Reflect and try to change my thought process of anger, sadness, happiness, things of what I could have done better to people and trying to change that when I come back home to the states after my two years of peace corps service. I still stay in contact with all my family and friends which is awesome, so there is a positive to this story! I appreciate all of y’all to keep reading these long post, I want to let y’all know I am alive, I am free, I am changing and I am evolving.
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