Friday Night

So we just got back from the director, Fernando's house where they made us a spaghetti dinner, which was excellent. Today we went to all the ministry site's where we're going to be volunteering at for a part of the time here. It was really interesting to see how some of the people live. There were poorer people than the people who lived in the ravine in Guatemala City. We went to El Gorrion, which is a small town about 15 minutes away from Antigua. They don't have running water there, but some of the people from Bethel are going to help build cisterns that collect the rain and then they use that water for drinking and what not.
We also met some cute kids today who were super excited to see us. We also went to the site where I'm going to be working, Hermano Pedro, which is a hospital connected to a catholic church. I'm going to be working with kids in the nursery who have cleft lip and are too malnourished to have surgery. Also, I'm going to be working with kids who have cerable paulsy, that should be a challenge. When we're living in Magdalena, some of us have to take a bus, which they call "chicken buses" because they pack lots of people on the bus and sometimes people bring their chickens on the bus. Anyway, we have to take that bus from Magdalena to Antigua, so that should be another interesting experience. Luckily I'm going with people who are much better at Spanish that I am ;)

Also, I met with our site leader today to find out what we are going to be doing, which is above. My site leader's name is Ramon and he's pretty cool. He spoke almost the entire meeting in Spanish, there was some which I didn't understand, but I got the jist of what he was saying.

Tomorrow we're moving to Magdalena for a week of homestay. This is more of a rural area, so I might not have internet access for a week...sad, but maybe there will be somewhere, where I can keep all of you updated. Before we leave for tomorrow, we're going to be going to some of the ruins in Antigua and then to a coffee bean field, so more sightseeing.

Anyway, I'm going to go to bed soon and hopefully I can update this thing once in the next week, if not, no worries, I'm ok, I just might not have internet access.

Love you all!!!