Hey! ok, so i tried to blog yesterday and it wasn´t working. so i´ll try again! i only have like 5 minutes on here though (we get 15 mins free internet at the hotel here in Panajachel, but i used 10 of those on msn :)). We arrived in Panajachel at noon today and settled our site into the Grand Hotel. It´s a very touristy place, and since then all i´ve done is grab lunch and wander around, trying to put on my best bargaining face. it´s crazy, the people will follow you RIGHT into a restaurant while you are eating lunch and they will NOT leave! it´s crazy! I bought a few things, and will probably grab a couple more tomorrow. they have all the same stuff in Antigua (starting Saturday we´ll be in Jocotenango which is like 20 mins from Antigua) but this is the cheapest place to shop apparently. I sent out a mass email yesterday to a bunch of people, but it only sent it to like 30 addresses, so i´m sure most of you didn´t receive it. pretty much things are going alright. there´s been tons of spiritual attack going on with our group. SO many are ridiculously sick or just feeling homesick and not tops. i´m sure that´s normal for a new place and culture though, but i can tell it´s really wearing on the group.
Habitat for Humanity is awesome! the people are pretty slack down here. breakkie is at 7 am, and so on monday we all are up and at the doors for our meal at 6:57. and we were fed around 7:40. so now i don´t even set my alarm until 2 mins to 7. and on the job site there are times when our albanils (masons) have nothing for us to do, so we just sort of sit there, but then other times when we´re digging trenches for pipes in the blazing sun. it´s HOT in Mazatenango (the place where we´re living and building). it was WAY cooler, almost freezing, at Camp Adulam where we were for teh first couple days. here in Pana it´s in the middle of them two. i like.
we´re building our house for a single father and his 11 year old son. the house walls were already up when we started, so we might finish mid week next week and move on to help another small group.
my spanish is coming along a little bit. i love trying to learn it! some of us went to see a movie last night. i saw National Treasure. it was in English with SPanish subtitles.i thought it´d be the other way around... wierd!ç
hmm.. what else? we leave Pana tomorrow after dinner and head back to the college dorms where we´re staying. along with the cochroches, lizards, toads, spiders, bed bugs, mosquitos, and scorpions. all my dreams of going to university in a foreign land have flown out the window. except maybe for england. school in a castle! anyways, it´s time for me to go. i love you all and miss you tons! i´ll try to get you an addy for where i´ll be living (starting saturday) asap. you guys rock so much. how can i pray? email me or reply to my bloggidy-blog-blog. hasta luega.
Janelle