Another Day, Another Shiling

Well, I have gotten over the mid-service hump, the back from the states hump, and now it's back to buisness as usual.  New mindset and motivation, paired with knowledge from past mistakes and I'm doing some great work if I may say so myself. 

Some of my new projects:

1.  Adding a new pit latrine for the local primary school... All the details are on the below website.
This is the part where I beg for money
http://appropriateprojects.com/node/1449

2.  Tree Nurseries.  This ongoing process is in the planning stages as I plan to start germinating in the month of June/July in order to have the seedlings of an appropriate size for the rainy season in December.  Right now I want to extend my zone of influence from just my village and the secondary school to a few other of my neighboring villages, and hopefully be able to double the amount of trees compared to the just over a thousand that we were able to plant this year. 

3.  Butterfly Farming!  This is obviously my favorite project.  It involves bringing the processes of cartching,and raising butterflies, and then taking the pupae/crysalisis and sending them to butterfly houses and private collectors in the US or Europe.  Right now I just got back from visiting an opperational butterfly farming group in a neighboring region.  Local villagers, forest service officers, and I went to the farms, and spent 3 days seeing the enclosures, learning about the materials, getting species identification knowledge, and asking a ton of questions.  Now the next step for us is to start planting the host plant species (different for each type of butterfly) in areas that we plan to put into enclosures, so that we can be ready to start farming pupae in the high demand month of July.  I don't know if I expressed this properly, but I am more excited than you can imagine about this project, and am pretty sure that I am the luckiest person in Peace Corps (Or the world).  And as much as it takes alot of time, and work, the actual resources to be used are just mosquito nets!

With all my positive outlook I've had lately it has given me the idea of extending for a third year in country.  But, if you or one of your friends decide to offer me an awesome job that gives me alot of money, the chance of travel for work, and do some high quality positive world work, I would consider and  possibly with an upcoming promotion.

So that is about it.  Pictures, they are coming I swear.  But another unmentioned project I got going is to make some well done youtube videos of my village and my projects.  So look out for that!