An update...

Hi everyone~

Just a little update this time....

As most of you know, I was pretty homesick on Tuesday, but I'm doing much better today. I think I was just overwhelmed with homework and school and not really understanding what I was doing. I think I have a better handle on things now. So thanks for all your prayers and love that you all sent me! It means a lot.

I'm just attaching some pictures that I took awhile ago, but it's just basically what I see everyday, which is pretty incredible that I'm able to see everyday. I mean, how many of you can say that you're able to see 2 volcanos every day?

This is a picture from a different roof, of the volcano, "Agua". This volcano is to the South of the city.
This is the same volcano, just from the roof of the house that I'm living in.

As far as my host family goes, it was a little weird at first. To start, when Kristin and I arrived there was just a guy there who showed us around the house. He basically told us that the house is our house since we're saying there for a couple months. Then the next day we met a lady named "Concepcion" and we were super confused. It turns out that the house is hers and that her nephew, the guy who showed us around, just works for her at the house. The food is always amazing. There hasn't been anything that I haven't liked. We have beans every night, but they're good. So basically, I just eat about anything. The lady is really nice and a good cook. It's taken her a little while to come around, but each day she seems to be coming around a little more. Also, the nephew, Jose, is a riot. He's hilarious, but doesn't live there. He's about 50 and has a wife and a family and lives elsewhere. It's been interesting seeing how our impressions of them have changed from the first day. I really like my house. The only let-down is that there aren't any kids, but I'm surviving.

There are three other students from Canada are staying in this house. To give you a picture of this house, as best I can... there are 8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a roof that we can go up on. And here's a picture of the house when you first walk through the doors. Our room is off to the left through that iron gate thing.After the open roof there's the dining room and then the kitchen. Off of the kitchen there are stairs that go up to the roof where there are 2 rooms and a bathroom. So we like our house a lot.

And there's 2 parrots and a canary in the house. This is one of the parrots that stays up on the roof and doesn't fly away. I'm not sure why it doesn't fly away cause it's not closed in, but alas, it stays there. And one of the parrots talks, I'm not sure if this is the parrot or not.
So that's my little update for today. And I've officially been here for a month! How crazy. It seems longer, but it seems shorter at the same time, weird.
I love and miss you all!!!