Happy Easter

I won a free phone!!!!

Last Saturday was a wonderful day; we had a day planned out for International Woman Day. A bit late, but super fun! I was able to attend a conference that they organized for the girls in which we had a woman politician come and speak about the women’s role in politics and democracy. She used to be the vice-minister in charge of superior and university studies—an amazing woman I hope to meet again. Everything she said was soooo good to hear, especially for the girls here. Its great to hear stories like hers, and even though she works for the current government, you can tell that even just her presence in the parliament improves the country.

Afterwards we had a football/soccer match in which the teachers played against the students. I got to be in the teacher side J and actually scored one goal and assisted in the other two, lets just say that we won—3-0! And to top it off, the winning team got a free phone with a sim card—around a $20 value here! It was made possible because the phone company—ZAIN came and used the event as promotion. We probably had about 50 spectators in total, plus the people in the neighborhood that came because of curiosity. The picture is the one we took after the match, it was so much fun!! I'm way in the back, you can only make out my face.

This Saturday was also an adventure! I finally got to explore the city on my own with Carolina. We were dropped off and walked all over, we had lots of little errands to run and it was quite exciting to regain some of the independence that I’m so used to. We also met up with another Carolina (she’s Italian and working for an NGO that is right next to the hospital, but she lives in the city) for lunch at a patisserie. We walked almost all the way there, so we traversed the whole city and took the transport on our own. Oh, what a wonderful day it was.