I have arrived.

After an exponentially turbulent flight (accompanied by a flight attendent yelling what i'm sure were words of reassurance over the loudspeaker in rapid spanish, however to me sounding like a final and hurried explanation of how to exit the plan after we crashed into the ocean blue), I have arrived. The Guatemala City airport is super small and everyone is incredibly friendly...so navigating my way through customs and out to the van was definitely not worth all the 6 hours of panicking I did about it on the plane ride over. Walking out of the airport is another story...I walked into the center of a fenced and crowded semi-circle of people offering rides and looking for relatives...it was sort of like showing my pigs at fair. Except for no pig to hide behind. Luckily, Anneliese, the lady who picked me up is speedy quick so she found me pronticimo and we were on our way.

I haven't really had time to explore the neighborhood yet, but our house is totally cool. I am the only volunteer so far for 2 and a half weeks so it's me and then 5 other people who work for the organization who come in and out. They are all wonderful, we eat together and hopefully will get to talk more once my spanish gets better, most of them speak limited or no english. Virginia, (my house mom) has hugged me like 4 times already...which we all know is a big one for me. Hugs appreciated! Last night I felt a lot like Mary from the Secret Garden when she goes to live with her aunt and she's all alone in that giant house and she creeps around all the rooms in her nightie like a ghost. Well...this house isn't big like that, but it's huge for one person and there are all these crannies and rooms meant for a lot of people hidden off of hallways and down stairwells that I keep discovering. Scary larry.

That is about it so far...I go to my placement site tomorrow morning, I'm excited.
I miss everyone so much! I love you guys.