New school.

There are now 4 of us here volunteering. It is SO nice to have company. Too bad for them I have a months worth of bad jokes and general weirdness that is deciding to rear it's not at all funny head. 7 more volunteers are coming on Saturday, but only for a week. It's going to be a blast.

I started at my new placement on Monday with Janelle, my roommate. So far we're sort of circulating through the classrooms and getting a feel for things, because next week we start teaching a class of our own. Monday I worked in the nursery with 1 year olds and two babies, it was the greatest:) It's amazing the things that they do to entertain the kids here...the classrooms are tiny and they find activities to keep the kids happy in a super confined space for hours. For instance a pile of colored popcicle sticks, totally busy for a half hour. Or today with my 4 year old class we put buttons into balloons and then blew them up. (worst idea ever, the kids shook them around and they popped and shot buttons at everyone. I have no idea what in the world the teacher was thinking of). At my last placement, recess was a giant cement patio. No toys, no playground...and the kids were totally happy.

We went to this market in the square on Sunday and there was tons of religious karaoke going on. Apparently this is big here. And people get realllllyyy into it. Also the variety of things that people are selling is so bizarre, they spread out a blanket and sell things from these beautiful handsewn textiles to bobby pins and plastic banana clips. We even walked by a totally innocent looking woman selling sex toys. Graphic sex toys. All lined out on her traditional guatemalan blanket. She can't get many customers....it would take a lot of guts to purchase a giant plastic penis in the middle of central square.

Before I left Santa Sofia the teacher and I were choreographing a dance for the end of the year performance, and on my last day she asked me to be in the performance with them. So I don't have to say goodbye just yet:) We'll see how that one goes....

I'm sorry for no pictures - next time. Hope you're all doing well!