HOLA!

Hello! Sorry for the delay in starting my blog, but I think I might be able to start posting some material now....

I´ve now been in Ecuador for nearly a month. I´m living with a family in a small agriculture community just north of Cayambe. I bathe out of a bucket because the showers are freezing cold and occasionaly eat strange food like guinea pig and gautita (cow stomach)...but mostly I eat rice and potatoes. All 55 volunteers are divided into different communities based on our language competency...I´m about in the middle. The six people in my group are all cool, which is a huge advantage as I spend much of my time with them trying to learn Spanish. The Peace Corps has been great for putting me in the most awkward situations I´ve ever been in before, such as trying to explain what the Peace corps is to a class room full of kids with my terrrible spanish...after this I dont think Ill be able to be embarassed anymore. On friday I find out which region of the country I will be living in...Galapagos is restricted to third year volunteers but I´m keeping my fingers crossed for the coast (or the orient!). Yesterday we had a Peace Corps volunteer barbeque complete with a soccer tournament between the 12 different communities which we are divided between. My team was basically robbed of second place...but third isn´t so bad;)
I´ll give more complete update of these early weeks once I´ve become more settled. I love you all!