As I was about to prepare for a youth sports meeting I was invited to, it started to rain pretty hard. Sure am glad I brought the clothes in off the line earlier this afternoon. I spent much of the day in Micoud and Vieux-Fort grocery shopping, getting a new atm card, and writing a letter for a meeting next week to community leaders to officially meet with me. The highlight of my day, however, was watching a couple of local men, Kent and Silva, slaughter a pig. I missed the actual killing, but saw most everything else. I was able to "help out" a bit by shaving some of the hair off with a knife before "we" strung it up...I did very little of the lifting, but basically found myself hugging this carcass. Good times.
Another new experience this week came for me yesterday at my friend Egbert's house, where I tasted fresh lamb from his backyard, roasted on in a small fire. It tasted very good, even the testacles which provided a bit softer meat than the rest of the body. Needless to say, I should have had my camera with me the past two days.
This month is kweyol (creole) month in St. Lucia and this weekend celebrates joune kweyol - roughly translated - Creole Day. The children in the schools wear traditional plaid and kweyol outfits and there is much breadfruit, pork, salt fish, and other ground provisions to be shared. There are lots of games, songs, and dances as well. Although my village of Mon Repos is not one of the main areas for island-wide celebrations this year, there will be some small local events and parties that I look forward to enjoying this weekend, and a great chance to meet some more neighbors. I've met a couple farmers this week whom I look forward to going to their fields and farms with in the near future as well.
Despite the rain and the custom of questionable meeting attendance, I'm venturing to the community center to see if this gathering actually goes off.
7:45 pm........No one showed, time to make some food and pack for a trip to the capital tomorrow for some meetings for other Peace Corps projects.
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