When Jacob and I came home yesterday, our host mom gave us a call. Jacob's boss was driving through our town on the way to see another volunteer in the West and dropped off 9 packages with our host mom! We were thinking we'd have to travel 5 hours to the capital to go pick them up, but no!
So, this post goes out to Megan W., Linda L., Ramona M., Joyce J., and my parents.... THANK YOU!!!! (another post to follow) You are all wonderful, thank you so much for taking the time to send us so many goodies! I now have 20 sticks of chap stick... seriously, I'm not kidding... and they will all be used within the year.
We also ended up having 5 containers of Lemon pepper! A few host family relatives came over last night with fried plantain empanadas for Jacob, who recently got 2 stitches (I'll let Jacob tell that story). So, we gave our host mom and her mother in law each a thing of lemon pepper, which made them very happy. Please don't be offended that we gave away a gift, it's sort of expected to share your gifts here, so this allowed us to do so without giving up something we only received one of... and nobody uses chap stick here, lol.
No packages were opened or rummaged through, our only uh-oh was not realizing that chocolate and gummy bears should not be sent during the hottest summer in a really long time. The gummy bears look like they're having an orgy... all glued together and such, and we're eating the chocolate in huge chunks... doesn't mean we're not going to stuff our faces with either, though.
Also, one package was from a Booster Club in California which donated over 100 packets of seeds for a garden we're starting with the local daycare (will blog about that later).
Anyway, here's what nine packages looks like... to a Peace Corps volunteer, these are diamonds!
All things awesome!
Ramona, I didn't know they made M&M bags this big! Also, thanks for the magazine... missing my New York fix.
Megan, we put the pic of the girls on the fridge, too cute! Our host mom came over last night to see the loot and wouldn't stop talking about how beautiful they are!!
Linda, you are now my husband's best friend... he ate all the jerky already, lol. Thank you!
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