poco a poco

We have been in Guatemala for a month now and the rain has finally started. Hurricane Barbara is off the Pacific coast of Mexico so we´ve been getting rain for the past few days... For some reason I had it in my head that Guatemala was going to be warm, even hot. To my surprise it´s been chilly and now wet.

Training is flying by; we have less than 2 months to go. We´re busy with classes from sunrise until sunset 6 days a week, but it feels like our Spanish and technical skills are coming along slowly. Our teachers keep reminding us poco a poca (little by little). We have our first language assessment on Monday. We have to reach a intermedio medio level to swear in as Peace Corps Volunteers on July 19th.

Mosiah and I spent this week in the indigenous town of Nahuala south east Xela on our PCV (Peace Corps Volunteer) visit. We stayed with 2 volunteers doing some amazing work with a local radio station, women's groups that do weaving and a technology center. It was nice to see volunteers in action and makes us eager to get to our site and start!

(Humm... I just had to kill a little cockroach crawling across my screen... )

Thanks to everyone for your comments and words of support. We´ll try and post more often about the specifics and i´m still trying to upload our pictures.

Lots of love!!