Its been 2 weeks already

So its been two weeks already and since my town has electricity today I´m going to bang out a blog on the Municipalidad´s ¨full speedy¨ internet...
I´ve pretty much spent the last 2 weeks realizing that things just seem to fall into place in this backwoods, rural town of Yauyos. It must be that ¨country living¨ type of mindset you hear so much about on the country station but never have the slightest idea what thier singing about. I can literally leave my house with one goal in mind, randomly run into someone I wanted to find the day before, end up making an appointment for tommorrow, and then realize that I still haven´t met my goal but I understand that if I go to the appointment tommorrow (which will probably fall through) I can achieve it then! If you can understand that, then you´re ready for the Peace Corps. Honestly my best advice for future volunteers or anyone wondering how to cope with a similar situation, is just stay out of your room and roam around the streets or just make spanish small talk (no matter how horrible your spanish is.) Each day i´m talking to new people, or even visiting the same small shops and having the same small conversations, but from what we were told in training, its the best way to intergrate yourself.
So far by just randomly walking around or asking the silly question of ¨Do you have plans today?¨ I´ve helped with some potatoes, milked some cows, dug an irrigation ditch, was taken on a tour of the nearby ruins, and even participated in a monthly meeting of all the park guards here in the Yauyos Reserve. I couldn´t have done these things if I was only watching the 3rd season of ¨The Office¨ in my room, cursing the afternoon rains. Sure it was a shock to arrive here, and i´m still learning to cope with it all (especially the cold...especially the cold and how Miraflores has yet to upgrade to insulation or indoor heating,) and yes, I do spend time in my room. But overall, as my ¨go, go, go¨ American mindset slowly settles into the rhythm of life thats seems so much more fitting for a rural life-style, I am learning to appreciate being in the moment, and realizing that this experience is going to go by just as fast even if I´m taking it slow....
So practical advice in sum: If you can´t sit still for longer than one hour while you watch your host family prepare a scarf for weaving while its raining cats and dogs outside, once again re-wetting your clothes on the line that you washed 3 days ago, and being out spoken by your 3 year old host sister (atleast for my level of spanish), then I you might want to re-consider joining!