A Series of Unfortuanate Events y un repaso

Hola a todos!

Before I recap the last few days, I want to take you through what happened this morning. Don´t worry, I write about it more for entertainment sake, and everyone is fine and no money was lost.

Wake up at 6 15 am for breakfast at 6 45 am. Wake up to Franz already awake because he had been up all night sick. He decides to stay home for the day because there is no sense in feeling worse. Kevin and I walk down to La Cruz where we wait for Charlie and our bus. Our bus comes, but no Charlie, so we miss our 8 am bus. Unsure what to do, we decide to walk into town. Still not having heard from Charlie, we walk by his place. Its opened and there are women in there doing their laundry (theres a community place outside his apartment). The women say that hes home but dont think hes woken up yet. My suspicion. Maybe he silenced his phone and missed his alarma (haha ALMARA, katie and meggie)? We knock on his door, and he answers, confused, and clearly just woke up. Apparently his phone shut down in the middle of the night for no reason. I was close. While we waited for Charlie to get ready, one of the laundry ladies knocks down the laundry line, clothes falling down. Kevin and I go to help her and try and tie the line back up. Not really sucessful, so we try and make things better. After we leave Charlies and head for the bus, he tells us that he thinks he might have pink eye. Shooot. As we sit on the bus and wait to go, Charlie decides he can´t take it anymore and so he decides to go back home, and send us off to work. Two men down. Then, the bus we are on needs to be pushed by two Guatemalans. The engine wasn´t even running. How would it make it up hills, ¿you ask? It wont. We had to switch vehicles. Meanwhile Kevin and I are amidst a Snake tourny on my cell phone and during the switch from one bus to another, Kevin loses a good game. THE END OF BAD HAPPENINGS. We then arrived in La Reforma and worked on our water deposit project for a few hours. YAY! I also got to speak lots of Spanish. YAY!

Recap of the weekend
...We are officially taking private Spanish lessons. Hooray! Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for an hour each day (that makes 3 hrs a week) sitting down with our own native speaker. Im still unsure how this will work, as they know no English, but Im willing to try it out because there is always room for improvement! We start this afternoon and Im excited to work on more advanced verbs (my request to my teacher)
...I finished my first book down here, The Last Templar. It was 500 pages!
...I read a 500 page book, thats right!
...I ate crepes and pasta. Take that, corn tortillas!
...Got our gameplan for the work we want to get done while we are here. Franz will work primarily with the clay water filters, Kevin with the stoves, and me with the water deposits.
...Went to a school who gave AMMID and I free lunch. It was a thank you because a few years ago AMMID built them this school. It was really neat to see how AMMID is appreciated within the city. I think it is a great organization and it is wonderful that others appreciate it, too.
...I read a 500 page book!
...I went exploring on a walking path past our guest house only to find a bunch of houses and a GORGEOUS view of the valleys and mountains. I wanted to explore more but didn´t want to impose on these peoples homes. Still trying to figure out what is acceptable here.
...Upon arriving to La Granja where we live, as Kevin put the key in the door to unlock it, IT BROKE! And, Dona Hilda couldnt remember where she put the spare. And could I mention that this was while Comi was experiencing very heavy rains, haha.
...Walked to a waterfall, La Gruta, and hope to go back. It was so peaceful and very scenically beautiful (¿is ¨scenically¨ a word?) I´m forgetting my English.
...I ran through a field to arrive at a tienda (store). A nine year old and an 11 year old were telling us that this store existed and I thought they just wanted us to run through a field. But, indeed there was a store.
...I read a 500 page book!
...GOT TO WEAR A GUATEMALAN TRAJE. This is the typical dress of a Guatemalan woman. At dinner the other night, we were talking about trajes with our host family and were talking about bigger woman wearing them. Since I am about 6 to 9 inches taller than any female in Comi, Dona Hilda let me try one on. It was muy especial. I got to wear the blouse, skirt and belt. And we took pics that hopefully I can post sometime. I was really honored that I got to wear it because I know the women here are proud to wear them. And they kept calling me beautiful, they were so sweet.

Hope everyone is doing well. I hear its been hott in the USA so I hope everyone is staying cool but getting a nice tan. Eat lots of watermelon for me! Still havent gotten my hands on any down here.

Ten cuidado y come mucha sandia,
Lowra