Life’s good…

It’s been a while since my last post.  Sorry I haven’t written anything for so long.

I’m feeling really comfortable on my motorcycle now, and enjoying the freedom.  I’ve gotten pretty used to the unpredictability of other people on the road, and pedestrians that’ll randomly dart out in front of me.

We’ve been having a great time here, hanging out with other teachers.  We’ve had several new teachers join our schools in the last few months, and they’re all really cool people.  We’ve got a couple of Americans, an Australian, a Nepali-Englishwoman, and just yesterday I met a new teacher from Canada

Every weekend we get together with our friends and fellow teachers.  We have a lot of barbecues and potlucks at each others’ houses.  Most of us live in the same neighborhood, within walking distance, and it feels like we have a better sense of community now than we did last year.

I’ve done some gardening on our balcony over the past couple of weekends, too.  My jasmine plants are doing well, and I started some bell peppers from seeds I got out of a pepper I bought at the market.  It’s blooming like crazy now, and I’ve got 3 tiny peppers on it.  I also put up some string-lattice stuff on one end of our balcony, and I started some moonflowers and cardinal creeper flowers from seeds to climb it.  Last weekend I removed part of a makeshift flower bed that our landlady had made on our balcony.  In the remainder of the “flower bed” I took out a bunch of the plants, and put in new soil.  I’m starting cuttings in it now from my jasmine plants.  When they get rooted I’m going to share some of them with our neighbors and other teachers.

I’ll try to take some photos of the balcony to post later.

Hope everyone is doing well.

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