Hiya!  So,day three in Guatemala and so far everything is a-okay!  First day i got here was kind of rough, i think it was just the initial shock of "oh my word im actually here and im ALL BY MYSELF", but luckily I met these really nice canadians who helped celebrate my arrival and also lived in the same homestay as me AND worked with from houses to homes. Pretty sweet eh??  Then we met up with these two guys (who also work with From Houses to Homes) from Belgium and Germany named Sebastian and Robyn, they are nuts ha and so much fun.  They are traveling on a budget too so we talked about hopefully doing some traveling together!
     Day two I went up to one of the work sites, it was the last day of building where you paint the house and then they have the key ceremony which is where the family receives the keys to the home.  Despite not having much of a personal connection or investment in this particular family (since it was only my first day) I still managed to bawl my freakin eyes out at the ceremony.  It was so great and it was moments like that that I am so incredibly grateful and excited to be here.
         Day three (today) I met up with this older woman named Dianne, who oddly enough is from Seattle as well!  She is living here indefinitely and has been here for 2 months, shes kinda coo coo ha and talks my ear off but i like her alot.  This morning she took me to this macadamia nut farm in the mountains for some macadamia nut pancakes and they were THE BEST pancakes I have ever had.  The batter was made with macadamia nuts and macadamia oils and it was topped with blueberries and macadamia nut butter....yummmaaa.  And seeing as I have been eating darn cornflakes every morning for breakfast I devoured them in 2 seconds.
      I got so lucky with my host family, they have hot water, feed me three meals a day, and have electricity woo hooo.  The womans name (my Doña) is Elsa, her and her husband run an enfermeria (where people come to get medicine) in the front and a carpenteria in the back (he is a carpenter).  They only speak spanish...and laugh at me because I suck.  I start the day with a delicious bowl of cornflakes and powdered milk, lunch usually consists of rice, beans, and some chicken.....and same with dinner ha. Im never going to want rice beans or chicken again but im much better off than some of the other volunteers who get an egg for lunch.
       Tonight im going to this restaurant called "La peña de sol latino" which is a restaurant me and Mom went to while we were here (one of my profile pictures is of us in that restaurant, im wearing a red zip up).  I had been looking everywhere for this restaurant because they play Andean music every night and it was SO much fun when we went.  Hopefully ill make some more friends so I dont look like a stinkin loser sitting there by myself  haha. 
      Tomorrow I start work in the school! I hop on a chicken bus at seven in da morning, which is packed full of locals and head up into the highlands to start teaching SO EXCITED!  Ill be teaching english and I assume helping them with math, writing, drawing all that fun stuff and most of the kids are 5 and 6 (so like preschool).  Love you guys so much and miss you!! Ill try to upload some pictures too :)