Doin for Myself

So we for the past couple of days have been working on developing a business plan for PASMOF, the women artisans of RED Titikaka. So that's been helping me feel less like a waste. But me personally feeling led back home is increasing over time, instead of decreasing. That is, approaching the one month anniversary of me being here, the homesickness hasn't really improved all that much. It hasn't gotten worse either though, it just persists. So I just endure. I'll keep everyone up to date with the business plan though. Also this week we are supposed to be traveling a bit to see the different communities RED Titikaka works with and to meet the women's groups. That should provide for some good bloggage to I hope :)

This week, I have had a couple new experiences that have reiterated to me that I am a capable human being, with God's help of course. I have washed my clothes by hand in a bucket for the first time ever. The clothes actually turned out clean and soft. I will admit I was a bit suprised, here is a pic of them drying on the roof.

Also I cooked some Spaghetti last night and made the sauce from scratch, sans recipe. And I mean from SCRATCH. I had to stew fresh tomatoes myself to even make the base for the sauce. No canned tomatoes/sauce/or paste to be found around here. I just combined tomatoes, onion, red pepper, oregano, basil, garlic, olive oil and salt until it tasted about right. I think next time I may add a little red wine in the beginning and let that cook down to give it a little more sweetness. I may also try to find a good type of spicy red pepper to add to give it a little kick for next time as well (they don't have crushed red pepper, what I would normally use to add a kick in Italian recipes). Overall though, I was very pleased and again...actually suprised myself. I don't know why I was suprised though, I should know: Philipians 4:13 baby! :)