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HOLA!!! so yeah this thursday ill have been for a month this thursday!!! thats crazy! everything is going really well.. the beginning of this past week was really rough and i was definitly feeling the "i want to go home"'s but its gotten a lot better. communication has improved so much and i actaully talk to my family alot now. My mom is awesome and so are my brothers (shes wearing the bracelet i bought her all the time now!) . My older brother and i are getting along really well now too, like we can joke around and stuff. hes kind of awkward but its gotta be weird having an american girl live in your house when youve only been around boys your whole life (i must have a million male primos) i taught him how to make hemp bracelets and stuff too which is pretty cool. So yeah my home life is great.. lissie's having a little bit of a harder time so ive been trying to be there for her alot. its actually helpful for me too cause im just so concentrated on how stuff is going for her that like my stupid little things like not having any salt with dinner (gasp!) are insignificant. AHhh annd i learned how to use my shower right so i have actual hot water now ( for the longest time i was too damn stupid to figure it out and was doing the cold shower thing anyway ! ) hahaa i got it now though =) AHH and this week i was feeling a little less than stellar and decided to go on a hike after school while lissie took a nap.. so i went up the mountain just thinking id get some beautiful views and some pretty pictures and just some me time.. it was pretty much awesome. i did a run/walk and like just completely tired myself out running up hills and walking when it got flat but then i got to the top .. and i could see the sea!!! like to one side was the sea and the other was like my town and all the other mountain towns and it was just amazing... so i did a little trespassing and just sat there for a while... until i chased away by bees that kept swarming around me haha but hey thats nature it happens... but yeah i wish i could get pictures on here!! not that it would do it justice but honestly that was one of the most amazing things ive seen..
Okay so this week we had our meeting with the junta (something like the town hall with a mayor-ish guy and everything) about what our service project would be. It actually went really well and im so excited to start! we want to replace the roof of the cafeteria/cocina of our school because it has termites and its really really dangerous. We find out next week whether or not we have enough money but if not i still wanta do it just need to find a way but im hoping itll be good =) We also wanta paint a world map on the wall of the school and maybe get a fridge for the cocina at the school too cause the cocinera has to bring in new food every day and it just sucks .. and they have to throw out so much. aaahh and thats another thing we wanta do this trash thing where we put in trash cans that can be used to burn it as well cause its just gross how much trash is around. Its not all over the place but its just in piles and they burn them by the side of the road cause they have nothing else to do with it .. i dont kno its just so beautiful here that that shouldnt happen. So yeah those we could make ourselves and theyd only cost lik $30 each so we definitley wanta do that. If the roof doesnt pan out for some reason we were also thinking aobut a playground for the kids. i dont kno we really have so many ideas and we wanta do so much but the junta was great and basically said whatever we wanta do we can its just theres so much we want to help with!! the kids are great though and would totally wanta help and so is the community. it really is amazing how great everyone is. We also had our first adult class of english.. i was so scared but everyone thought we did really well and they were all so nice and appreciative.. it was great except for this one guy who tried to pick up me and lissie when we asked everyone to write down what they wanted to learn in english and he wrote he wanted to know all about our lives, country, likes, and dislikes hahaa .. in pretty good english. it was funny though and he helped out alot of the people who were new haha.. but yeah its alot different than teaching kids but still went well i think .. lissie was amazing, i kinda choked a little cause i was nervous but she saved me and we definitley did a good job =) Ooh yeah next week i get the por supuesto (price idea) for the roof next week so ill let you know what were doing after that.
Speaking of next week ... i cant wait!! this wednesday well be back in san isidro and then to Limon for CARNIVAL!! its supposed to be crazy and amazing and i can't wait.. carribean here i come =) ... not to mention were supposed to have these awesome shacks right on the beach =) .. o yeah haha .. i dont kno i just cant wait to get to the beach , love santa fe and the mountains but im still a beach lover =) ahh Today we went to hot springs and are just relaxing .. back to santa fe tomorrow till wednesday !!!
k im gonna go cause were all going to our leaders house for dinner tonight and i gotta get all changed and do a couple things before we go but i just wanted to let everyone know what was going on! i miss you all!!!!
LOVEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
---CASS
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