Still alive!

sorry guys, i haven't updated this thing in ages!  i've been busy, so let me try and recap.

firstly, i am now an official volunteer with the peace corps.  i swore in at the ambassadors house here in Guatemala City on March 25th.  it was a pretty grand ceremony, though only a very small portion was devoted to us, the rest was more of a close of service production.  sort of disappointing, but what can you do.  peace corps is craving some good PR after the 20/20 story so i guess they have to do what they have to do.

after swear in we were off to Antigua for the weekend.  our ecotourism program had rented out a hostel and we painted the town that friday night and the following saturday.  after that i was off to my site, sort of.  a few of use stopped overnight in Xela to enjoy one more day of freedom before we got to work.  it was fun, we had some drinks, ate some burritos, and watched a movie.  wouldn't trade it for anything.

and now i've been here at my site for a week as of right now while i'm typing.  in this time i have... not done too much.  it looks like i'm going to start teaching next week and i am still homeless.  which is pretty disappointing.  but hey! peace corps knows i'll figure it out.  or at least they keep telling me i will.  though it does feel like i was just sort of thrown in here, i'll make the best of it.  poco a poco.

anyways, i have some cool pictures to share, but i haven't uploaded them yet.  so stay tuned!  i promise it will happen, and i'll even talk about my new site more.  once i actually have a place to live haha