If you know me, you probably know that I do NOT enjoying being bored. I am always the one planning something for a friday night. Or organizing an activity for all my friends. I always want to get my hands dirty and be active. I just love it. Bored is not really a word in my vocabulary.
Being on SST has really driven this point home. First of all, the work that we are doing here is not necesarily hands on. We often times are just observing rather than participating. Which for a while is fine....but after a while it gets old. And boring. JUST LET ME DO SOMETHING. That has really been a struggle for me on this service portion. I am here to do service and I feel like I haven't accomplished much, in terms of material things. However, the relationships I have built from just spending time at the Los Pipitos organization is really what will last a lifetime. I do realize that, and that makes me feel like I have accomplished something.
There have been a few weekends where I have almost driven myself crazy not doing anything. There is only so much conversation that you can have with our host family and there is only so much shopping you can do (I have to get all the stuff back to the states somehow : ) ha.) And Lindsey and I can only play Rummy and Dutch Blitz so many times. We have gotten really, really good at those games. And you can't do your laundry if you just did it yesterday. And after you read through all your books you brought, you start to read them a second time! So boredom strikes often. And sometimes it almost makes me crazy. I just don't know what to do with myself.
Even after all my complaining about my boredom, I think about the crazy life that I am going to have with volleyball season and school work this coming fall and it makes me realize that I will miss the laid back lifestyle that I have mostly enjoyed this summer. I have also learned that it is OKAY to be bored. Sometimes you just shouldn't do anything. Just be, and that's okay.
So overall while I have mostly loathed the boredom that I have experienced here, I think it has taught me some valuable lessons, about myself and about life.
Now it's back to work. Gotta finish those projects that are due in 4 days! You know you just don't learn enough just by experiencing SST. You HAVE to do other projects to pass SST. Who ever thought to make SST a graded thing. YUCK!!!
and NO I haven't been procrastinating on my projects. I was ALMOST done with all three of my written reports when one day the computer in our house decided to crash...luckily I had sent two finished reports to myself beforehand. But the one that was almost done...lost forever. So now it's time to start over, bummer!
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That's a bummer about the computer....lucky for you at least 2 of the papers were done already! Whew! I'm sure you are good at blowing through those papers at this point of your experience!? Yes?
I'm loving all these blogs you've posted to keep us updated on your SST experience! It's so amazing that in these remote places of the world that you can get internet service and we don't even have high speed at our house!! It's pretty amazing isn't it?
You just get your booty back home, you and Kyle(Carl-as Ethan would say)! Speaking of remote, OMG, I couldn't believe how remote it was where Kyle was staying! Every picture that was posted of those guys on the visit by your GC hosts was so amazing of all those kids following those 3 guys around.....they're gonna miss them so much when they're gone....they look very happy and the kids look so adorable. It would just break your heart to leave them all.
The same for you Alli! I feel for you as you have to start saying your good-byes to your host families! It sounds like they've been SO GOOD to you and we thank them! Love you
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