One week in!

So here i am one week in. feels way longer! but i am still loving it. there are little things i´m getting used to like bugs in my food. its cool extra protein! HUGE tranantula size spiders in the bathroom, I ran out and had my dad kill it. while my mom was telling me to be careful because a lot of spiders here are venomous! And bugs crawling all over me at night and the massive amounts of mosquito bites i have on my body, its rediculous!! but i´m working through it! or the extremely long walk i have from the bus stop to my house... but its good, i´m getting lots of exercies! and hopefully losing weight! i feel pretty good anyway! ohhhh and its been raining the last two days... and man that saying is so true cause when it rains here, it POURS!! crazy crazy downpours, but they usually dont last very long! And i told my mom i like ketchup the other day when i was at a birthday party for a one year old... so cute! and so that night she brought me ketchup with my egg and lettus so i put it on... its not ketchup! which i figured, but its like a super runny weird salsa type sauce... haha! I know Tishra, you wouldnt do very great with that, you´d have to get it shipped in! ha! But i´m doing pretty good with the food. mostly rice and meet which is tasty, some good soups, and lots and lots of juice which i love. and when i talk about juice, ím talking about right off the tree in the back yard and into the blender.... so amazing! My family is really great, my mom really likes to talk to me, and my baby brother is so adorable its so great! i drink a lot of terere which is the tradition that ppl drink every single day we drink all day during class, at home and whenever its my fav thing! i went and watched our peace corps boys play soccer the other day and afterwards everyone drinks beer and hang out and they had music, and of course i got up and started dancing with my gpa... and everyone was clapping. i´ve tended to get lots of attention here, but not in a creepy way! my grandpa says im the prettiest girl in the whole group, he loves me! my good friend jacob lives with my gpa and we do most everything together, bc i´m not suppose to be walking by myself, so it works out nicely! im in the middle spanish level so i´m starting in spanish this week and will move to guarani next week for at least some of the time!! my class has three pcv to one teacher, so we get lots and lots of study time!! oh and i´ve been assigned the task to coreograph a dance for our training group (just the 12 of us who are in the same community) hahaha! so that should be fun, i´m going to do a mix of songs... he! The great thing is i get to play a lot of volleyball which there is a court at my friends house like a min away, and i´ve proven myself to be good and i´m like the good girl that plays volleyball. my friends dad was talking about me the other night saying how good i was! ha! and he just lives across the street and watches me play! yesterday we did a training afternoon where we practiced to make things like a form for the latrines and how to make soap, it was definitely more hands on and super fun! we did that with the other health group in their community like 10 min away! so now i´m going to try some more photos... they went to the top and thats weird but oh well, i dont know how to do it! but the one is of my mom and baby bro at a birthday party and the other is my best friend here, Eliza, shes from bend or so she knows where i live! and we´re drinking terere! the one above that is right outside my house, the walk down the road to my school! and the one above that one is a picture of most of my community people and the background is our training school. we go here every morning at 745 for language and sometimes in the afternoon for training, or we´ll go to the other site! with the exception of wednesday when we go to the city to the main training site and we have to be there at 8 and it takes us 45 min to walk, so i got up this morning at 5:30... way too early! But i´m enjoying the exercise! k well thats it for now. more to come later!