Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Hello everyone back home! Sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have been busy, i think. Time has gone by really quickly lately. With classes starting i hardly have any free time except for the weekends. I also just started a youth group with a group of 6th grade girls. well i didn´t start it, one of them found me and asked if i could teach her how to plant trees. (how lucky am i?!?!?!) i said, get some friends together and we´ll do it together, so i will be doing that this afternoon! very exciting!
Also for the past week i was out of Tonalá at a language taller (workshop) in Carazo, very close to my trianing town, so i was able to go back and visit my host families for the weekend. it was a really fun time. we had a nice 45 Environment (my group) reunion the weekend before the taller and all met up in the city of granada - it was a blast! there is some amazing food to be eaten in granada! also some fun dancing as well. and then being able to spend 2 nights in my old training town at the end of the taller was the perfect way to head out. also this week is Semana Santa so there is no work/no school so that is fun, all the people go to the beach to celebrate, i don´t really want to go, so i dunno what i am going to do. maybe i´ll go do a midnight full moon volcano hike.... what do you all think? things are going well so far, just making new friends and enjoying my time here, trying to get closer with my community, but it has been harder than i thought since i have had to be in and out of town because of medical stuff. but i am hoping now that i am feeling better than will change. sorry i do not have any pictures to post. it´s not like i´m on a vacation as a tourist so i really don´t use my camara alot unless i am out of tonala, i´ll try to get better at that. ok, well i´m starving so i think i am going to go grab a bite to eat at On the Run, yes that´s right, the gas station... it has air conditioning and a free toilet... you´d use it too if you were me. Dad, Jamie y Brooke - i can´t wait for you to come. maybe we can all eat at on the run together!!!!

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congratuations Jill! I miss you soo much! i wish i could be there with you at such an important time of your life...