Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Arrived!

Hi, this is more of just a test as to what I´m doing, and I assure my next ones will be better.  For now I will just paste an email I sent to family;
       So far so good down here. It is warm but not unberable and the skies have not opened up too much yet.  I am living in Pio XII or Pious the 12th with a family consisting of the mother, her husband and two of her married kids, each with a child.  They live on about a quarter acre plot and have 5 small buildings on the land.  I have my own entrance to one of the buildings, which is nice for privacy, but the construction consists of concrete and corregated metal roofs attached 4 in away from the walls, allowing air and noise between the rooms, and the outside.  Of the 38 PC people, and 18 Environmental volunteers, only 4 are in my town, paired with people of similar language skills.  I think I am a little more advanced than 2 of the others but it isn´t a big gap and everyone is haveing fun in our 6 hour per day classes.  The only regular ¨food shopping¨¨ the family does is to feed their chickens with a special mix, the rest is grown and sold to them by friends and realitives.  The father is a cabinent maker and has some rocking chairs of his on the property, the rest is sold on the pan american highway a mile away.  The community is small but the entire countryside seems denslely populated and it is hard to walk 100 yards without being passed by 2 people sharing a ride on a bike, a mother and kids walking, or a truck with equipment passing by.