Lima to Piura

I just returned from Lima yesterday and it was so hard to leave! The family I was staying with was so great and it was super nice to get outside of the campo mentality. It really surprises me how different and how much further developed the mentality of the people are from places like Lima are from those in the campo and even capitol cities like Piura. I went to chosica to visit my old host family from training and just speaking with them I could tell such a big difference. It makes me grateful to know them, but also brings me back to reality and lets me know I am not as dumb as I feel SO OFTEN while in site and Piura. I didn´t expect this part of PC life would be so difficult.

I think I am going to try to switch houses in my site (if my APCD allows it). I love my host family, but it is just too much to take sometimes. I can deal with it, yes. But I am not going to be the most productive I can be if I stay. I need privacy, I need quietness, I need to feel like I have my own life and routine and living with 7-9 other people makes that extremely difficult. I hardly ever have the privacy to do work, let alone the privacy to just THINK. If I cannot switch houses, I am at least going to try to rent a room somewhere that can be my office. You guys would not believe how hard it is to have privacy here. Its almost impossible. And for some one as private as myself, you can imagine the problems with that.

Its back to site in a couple of hours. I had to stay in Piura for an adjustment day, to get myself ready to back to the campo...Oh yea, the campo. I cant wait (can you sense the sarcasm??)