Friday, April 20, 2012

Oh how the Peace Corps can bring a person down

Today was suppose to be a BIG day. What led to disaster? Well let me start from the beginning...(some fun pics of my animals).
 My pigs!!!
The baby puppies!!
I have been in site for almost 5 months. I spent the first 3 months working on my Community Diagnostic, gathering data etc.Then months 4-5 were filled with training/ writing diagnostic/ first vacation. AKA jammed pack. So we were asked to turn in a rough draft of our Diagnostic. So all us Caja girls did.


When we got them back...the nicest way to put it is just go jump off a bridge with your report because that is about how good it is. Think back to when you were in junior high and you get a paper back and it is all in red. Oh and that the graphs you made are not the right type. Why aren't you a mind reader? Didn't you know we wanted it this way! I mean sorry we didn't give you a format to follow or actually we did and you followed it....but never mind we changed our mind on which one we wanted.
So that put me in a stellar mood to begin with! Then in my community I started inviting people to come to my presentation of that very Diagnostic. While asking people, almost half of them say...No sorry have something else to do. Others say sure. And the third set of people why are you asking me so far in advance! I won't remember, ask me a couple of days before. I went back to those people and guess what...oh I have something that day. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Sometimes I really don't like Peru! But oh well some said they would come including my "volunteer boss, Barbara". So I make all the posters as best I can because have no artistic talent, buy snacks....

The presentation is set for 8am this morning. Well my cousin, Deisy, from the Early Stimulation Center shows up at 8:05am. We are sitting out front of my health post because they still aren't there yet. Around 8:30am 2 of my health post workers show up, among them the Jefe (boss) of the health post not included and my PCVL, Barbara. Then at about 8:45am the PRONEI lady shows up and that is it!!!!! Not my mayor or anyone else that I asked and said yes. I just spent almost 5 months getting ready to be to this point and no one bothers to show up. I can hear a beer calling my name at 9am in the morning. Also, feel like crazy and then trying to pop off peoples heads!
Anyways so I don't give the presentation and Barbara and I leave. Guess who I see? Low and behold my mayor getting ready to go to Chota. Well thanks for your time and consideration. I mean your show of support really means a lot to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Words cannot express how angry I am right now.
Oh well. soon I will get happy in the same pants I got mad in.........but not yet, haha.