Apr 1, 2010
Slightly Useful
Just when I was sure I would spend the next two years reading (not exactly a death sentence but not really why I joined Peace Corps) I got news today that I can help with an English Club at the local high school. I will help teach English with the subject matter of the Environment. I dont know what they have in mind but to me when you are speaking of the environment you can also speak about health, the world, politics (in a neutral Peace Corps way of course), animals, business, pollution. Basically our environmental welfare as a planet encompasses any interesting topic I can think of, so I am hoping the class can not only learn English but can also be a nice seminar about the world. I should not get my hopes up too high, but I need something to believe in. After all, my primary focus right now would be the fictional characters in Marge Piercys "Gone to Soldiers" and as wildly entertaining as that book is I need some real life stimulation. Plus, teenagers like me....at least in the US they do. Here they might just agree with their parents that I am weird and require far too much privacy (which incidentally is a concept competely absent in Malagasy culture).
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When I was taking a tour of the Mayflower I ask one of the actors who were there, what they did for privacy. They said to me in a very snobish voice, when you are trying to survive you are not as worried about privacy, you focus is on living another day. It kind of put their plite into perspective for me. It seems like the poorer folks are the more social they are. I think its a form of entertainment. Maybe they don't have books and TV but here you are their very on "as the world turne" You will just have to be the movie star. When you return you can lock yourself in your room and I will slide you food through the window until you want to come out. We will have to talk on the phone all day or I won't be able to agree to this:)Mom
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