It's been a while.. .

Hi everyone! I know it's been a while.. . nothing really interesting has been going on, same 'ole...

Work: Finally finished introducing ourselves to all of our 21 schools.. . it went really well with most of the schools, some were definitely more enthusiastic than others. We had to write a report about all of the schools and give it to our superintendant. . if that's how you spell it. He's been really supportive, but he's a busy guy! Our counterpart Seño Cony is adorable. She's really a typical Guatemalan, takes her time, etc. She's so sweet. She had purses made for me and SueEllen, my site mate, out of one of her old huipiles, which is like one of the indigenous shirts. ..It was really sweet. She also took us out to an amazing lunch. . . We have a great friendship.

Lets see. . . me and Sue went to Antigua for lunch this Sunday and unfornutately Sue has an acute peanut allergy.. . long story short she had a reaction and had to go to the hospital. .which was crazy. The people at the hospital were pretty inefficient. . . Sue was like purple and they took 20 minutes to give her anything.. . although they did ask me her age like 3 times. It was ridiculous. And they didn't have epinephrine so long story short we're going to the hospital in the capital next time.

What else? There's a crazy tropical storm right now and it's raining all the time. . Lovely. You know us Californians, at least me. I don't like more than a couple days of rain. Peace Corps has been sending texts about how there's supposed to be rain for the whole week.. .lovely. The house that I don't live in yet but I will be living in a couple of weeks from now has 2 walls that are completely wet. Plus this other room that is kind of outside has water all over the floor. Think I should call my landlord? One of the water spots started out as an E.T. like figure, then transformed more into Jaba the Hutt or whatever. In my bedroom it started as a guitar then transferred to E.T. on skis. . . now both are huge blobs.. . Lucky me.

Hmm... My boss is coming to our town to see how we're doing on Friday. I'm pretty excited. We'll find out what we're doing well and where we need to improve. . It should be interesting. We haven't done much except get acclimated. We've started to do baseline surveys on all of the schools so we can get an idea of where we need to go from here. So far the teachers really need to get teaching the health classes. They aren't doing a lot of that yet, and it's a big part of the program. Some schools will be able to get certified quickly, some have bad attitudes and never will certify. We need to really try and certify all of them, but there are some where their hearts aren't in it.

Want to know what we did last friday night? Ate popcorn and made hot chocolate while reading the People mags that my mom sent me. It was amazing. Then we split a pizza and drank some vino. It's all about the simple pleasures in life. . .

Miss everyone at home. . .I'll be home in 35 days! Just for like 6 days but still. . . so exciting.

xoxo