RPCV's

Well it looks like this didn´t work the first time so I shall have to ammend. In anycase, all is well. What I meant to tell you all about was how this past weekend I ran into some RPCV's (Returned- Peace Corps Volunteers) who had completed there service in 1965 I believe. They were two of the neatest older ladies. So we got to talking, they were a part of the first education group ever to enter Tanganyika (it was Tanganyika at the time ha! Which is before the Zanzibar revolution hit and Zanzibar became joined with Tanganyika to form Tanzania. ) Anyway, they were just full of interesting tales from when they had been volunteers, and I remember thinking, when I get to be an older lady, I hope to be just the same style of interesting. We ended up asking them what they think changed most between now and then and they said, there's alot more people now.
Ha. For the cynical out there, I'm sure you are suitably impressed with the difference we've all made. But we're idealists here so we'll let it go.
Anyway, RPCVs only get to be RPCVs when they haven´t been medically seperated or administratively seperated or just left, so seriously I hope I make it that far. I´ll try not to get myself kicked out in the meantime.
But I'm very much begining to realize what a long time 2 years is so I have respect for that. Seriously miss y'all sometimes.

So on a further note, in an effort to energize all those to spend more time at the beach, had an interesting experience this morning which results with me being in town so early this week. So I got what I thought was a mosquito bite last week at the beach and I itched it and it got real red and puffy, such that I thought I had got it infected. So this went on for about a week till this morning, staring at my puffy mosquito bite I notice what I thought was pus in it. So I reach in to grab the pus and pull out a larvea of some kind. Yup I had an interesting maggot typed thing growing in what was definately not a mosquito bite sore on my thigh. Apparently it may be a sandfly and its unusual for them to lay eggs in people but it happens, and I likely got it from sitting on the beach (which I thought sillily was harmless), alas no. So there are some downsides to life on the beach! Ha.
Anyway, hope all is well, really do miss people.

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