Cape Verde keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter. I have never sweated so much--especially when I´m out walking with the sisters. This is resulting in a nasty zit break out. Oh well.

Well I have a week and half left in Cape Verde, Less than a week left in Mindelo, and two days left on English class. Where does time go?!

Everyone keeps asking me if I am going to come back soon and all I can say is, I sure hope so. I´m getting sad realizing that I won´t see so many of these people that I have come to adore for a long time, if ever again. It´s a hard realization. I wish I had a bunch of money and I could come visit whenever I wanted.

I hope I fit in everything I can this week. So far the week should go like this:
Monday: SOS village, lunch at Nelida´s, São Pedro beach, English class, James´ birthday party.
Tuesday: Prison, baking baking baking with sister Goff for my class party, Out with the sister missionaries, and then Classsss party!!!
Wednesday: PRAIA GRANDE. The most beautiful beach! And then Outreach, which is like a young single adult program here.
Thursday: Last lunch with elder and sister goff, Sister missionaries, and present shopping.
Friday: Last trip to Laginha beach, Last lunch with James and Karina, Finish present shopping, pack, Outreach, Final dinner. :(
Saturday: flight to Praia. :( :( :(

BAH, I can´t believe it´s my last week in Mindelo!!!!!

Anyway, last week I went to the SOS village with a peace corp volunteer. It was basically like a day care for children. A place for kids in need to play, eat a meal, and have activities. I´m going to go back on Monday with Nelida for some activities planned for the kids.

I talked to the peace corp volunteer for quite a while and learned all about it. Shoot guys, its looking like I´ll be joining the peace corps after college.

Story from this week. So I was sleeping over at Nelida´s and we had turned the light off, but I needed to check the phone for something. As I was reaching over to get the phone I thought I felt something on my arm, but I dismissed the thought because I assumed it was just one of my bracelets. I then realized I needed the light on, so I got up and turned it on and then looked over to my bed to see a CEM PÈ CRAWLING ON MY PILLOW. A cem pé in english is a centipede I think, or a milipede. In anycase, they are bad here because if they bite you, you get swollen and sick for three days. After I discovered it, and ran out to Cajo (nelidas brother)for him to kill it, but I couldnt remember what they are called so I just kept repeating ´mil, mil (thousand, thousand) cem, cem (hundred, hundred´ and making weird wiggly hand motions. Somehow he knew what I was talking about and he and his dad found and killed it. But now the WHOLE family makes fun of me everyday because of the weird wiggly hand motions I made. Hahaha.

Also, yesterday I went scuba diving again, and saw TWO sharks. Yes, TWO sharks. They were less than five feet away from me. SO cool. They were nurse sharks though, and apparently nurse sharks aren´t even remotely dangerous, so no worries dad.

Um, I´m sure there are a thousand other things that I have to tell everyone, but I keep forgetting because I keep trying to remember the things I have to do in my last week. Sorry! I´ll try to post some pics tomorrow!