Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Goats and a dragonfly



Its not all about goats and dragonflies but here are some pictures of them. I just want to say that I am well and healthy. Things are going well I am working on bee boxes so that people will have another source of income but first I will test the waters with one box so that I can see how many people are interested. I am also making a tree nursery in that I hope to nurse 15thousand trees for the community but we will see how many seeds I get and go from there. I would like to thank everyone for always asking of me, I am always thinking about everyone. I hope all is well back home I know jobs suck right now but if you have the need to see somethings else then join the Peace Corps I mean why not. Well I am sorry for not being as recent as I have been in the past with the blog but the internet is not always working and sometimes there is just not enough time to do anything besides check email. I wish everyone the best and can honestly tell you that this is probably the best thing I have ever done so far.
Peace Love and all that good stuff
Austin


So last month another volunteer and I planned a soccer tournament to help educate for HIV/AIDS. We were able to use all of our testing kits enabling 150 people to know their status which happened to be negative for all 150. We also had videos playing for children to watch and a lady living with HIV to come and talk with everyone. I am proud of everyone who helped and I consider this to be a success for HIV/AIDS education. I started out being a ref but soon realized that I could not be official enough for the teams and I respectfully let one of the nurses take the job. This was just the first of I hope many tournaments I will plan but volunteers have been using soccer to educate for many years so I am by all means not the first. Maybe next time I will be playing for the home team.