ok, so here´s the diddly i tried to post a few days ago that didn´t work. it might sound sort of repetetive :)
! things are great here... it was KILLER hot when we arrived, but then bused a couple hours into the mountains where it was FREEZING (cloudy and cold everyday) at a place called Camp Adulam. It was super pretty there. We,re together with site 2 (the other guatemalan groups), and they,re really cool. hmm, this email might be all over the map, so sorry about that! i,ll try to start again.

we got to CMU at 2pm and there was over a foot of snow. i loved it! but then the director came in and told us that the guatemalan airport was on strike and no one was allowed in or out of the country! but we hopped on the bus and did the 8 hour trek down to Minneapolis anyway. we watched Napoleon Dynamite (a classic with this group) and Touching the Void on the way down. i maybe got 30 mins of sleep on the bus. then i slept almost an hour at the airport. we were then informed that the airport in Guate had hired some Mexicans and was up and running. BUT our plane to Atlanta was delayed, so we almost missed our connecting flight! they held it for us though because there are 57 of us. 57 with zero sleep in the past 36 hours. ouch.

so back to camp adulam... we spent thursday to sunday at adulam, playing soccer and tag with the kids, and trying to stay warm (seriously, it was insane!) i helped lead worship on friday and we had a dude come in to teach us some cultural facts and safety.

sunday our us driver (dario) drove us to Mazatenango where we,re staying while working with Habitat for Humanity. we´re actually staying in college dorms while the kids are out for the winter! college dorms that completely shattered my dreams of international school (except i might still want to go to England and live in a castle school... but that´s another story). but seriously, we live with mosquitos, cockroches, bed bugs, scorpions, lizzards, and toads. it,s an adventure!

it´s hilarious, i literally walk down the street and all the Guatemalans just stare at me, or laugh and say Alta! (means tall). everyone is SOOO tiny! it´s hilarious :)

my small group is building a house for this man named Raphael and his 11 year old son. Raffy stops by the site daily to chat with us (i,m learning a bit of spanish... mostly just vocab to do with construction! haha!) and he´s brought us chocobananos (halved frozen bananas covered in chocolate!), Pepsi, papaya, and real cocoa plants/fruit and chocolate. h,s super nice! and our albanil (mason) is awesome too. ew, speaking of chocolate, even though it originated down here, it´s NOT GOOD at ALL. it´s so wierd! maybe i´ll bring some back to show you all :)

tomorrow we´re heading to a hotel and market in Panajachel! excited! apparently it,s awesome for shopping. the nights have been super hot here in Maza, so i´ve had a couple nights were i jump into my bathing suit, jump into the shower (it´s always nice and cold) and gone to bed wet. it works! anyway, things are really good.. a lot of people have gotten sick (stomach, bowels, etc), but i,ve been good! except i caught a cold from Xena. but otherwise things rock. i wish i had more time to tell you all the insanely crazy cool things i´ve been seeing. miss you all! how can i pray? be so blessed!
Janelle
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7