working too much?

It has been a rather busy couple of weeks.  Two Wednesdays ago a Peace Corps representative met with Tiff and I and a coworker in our office talking about how our first three months were going in the office.  After talking with her for for about an hour, she implied that I worked too much.  I think that I was taking tsaying that we were working 24/7 too literally and I am trying to relax the amount of time I spend at the office.  But things are picking up quickly.  Last Saturday, the 25th of September a village outside of Shkoder held the first (hopefully annual) "Play for Peace" soccer tournament.  The day was centered around the International Day of Peace (September 21) and organized by The Door, an NGO funded by Norwegian Aid.  Tiffany and I had proposed the idea to Kastriot a while back, and he ran with the idea.  The Peace Corps country director came and spoke on a very wet and rather chilly day, but we still had a full complement of teams.  4 boys teams and 4 girls teams competed.  In the end the boys from Berdice and the girls from Juban won.  Everyone involved was very excited on the success for both the soccer games and the crowd turnout (which was estimated between 200-250) in spite of the terrible weather.  That afternoon we welcomed other volunteers from "the north" for our first northern dinner.  We had a potluck at our place with veggie lasagna, spicy chicken bruschetta, babaganoush, samosas, chili, rice with veggies, potato and corn salad, fruit pizza, brownies, oatmeal raisin cookies, fruit salad,  and honey cake, along with a few drinks.  The party was a success but we were exhausted from the soccer tournament and I fell asleep in the 2nd quarter of the Buckeyes game (which was already a blowout by that point).  The week was filled with coffee meetings and planning for an environmental group that Tiff and I are wanting to start here in Shkoder.  US Aid had a meeting on Friday to help plan the next phase of their local governance program which Tiff helped organize bringing a few NGOs that weren't invited by city hall and met with the representative before the meeting.  Tiff also has helped the Aarhus Center complete a few post season beach surveys, and we were very surprised with some of the responses.  We have also been busy watching all of the new fall TV shows, and catching up on the ones we have been missing.  I thought we watched a lot of TV in the US but it is true when they say you never watch as much TV than when you are in Albania.  On Tueday I will travel back to Puka to attend a deforestation round table that hopefully will end with a convention being signed by all the leaders of the Puka region to stop illegal logging.  We will also have information sessions in the schools for the Outdoor Ambassadors group that we want to have the first meeting on the 13th of October.  I have some other plans for groups I want to organize but I'll wait to get more information before I share that with the world (or all 8 people that read the blog).  In other news it looks like Tiff's family will be visiting us in the spring, which is very exciting for us and I think they are excited as well. We are always excited to have more visitors.  Hope all is well in the US and to talk to everyone soon.