Just a little update for you all!

We moved to Magdalena on Sunday. Magdalena is a very small village up in the mountains. It's two short bus rides from the somewhat larger city of Antigua where we'll be splitting the time this semester. We met our host families Sunday morning and then drove down into Antigua to spend the day eating Pollo Campero (the pride and joy of Guatemalan restaurants), going on a scavenger hunt, meeting the S.I. staff, and watching the Super Bowl. Go Giants? It was a long day, and we were more than ready to crawl into our beds at our host family's house. My roommate and I have the absolute sweetest couple as our host parents. Our host mom, Dolores, has made us two delicious breakfasts so far, and is an absolute doll. Her husband grows flowers and they sell them in two different markets twice during the week. Yesterday was our first day at the ministry sites (community development sites is perhaps a more appropriate term). I'm working at a private elementary school here in Magdalena teaching English. Fridays are non-academic days and so we'll be teaching Bible classes on Friday. There's about 80 kids in the school, and it's a bit overwhelming but fun for sure! Right now the four of us students and one staff member are all working together in the classrooms, but later on we'll be doing some teaching on our own. I'm looking forward to be able to practice the things I'm learning in Tesol back at Greenville! The kids are fun, and exciting, and dirty, and loud. So it's going to be crazy, but good. At least I think it will be. :) (Check back in later to see if I'm still thinking the same thing!) We're here in Magdalena for this week and then we'll move to Antigua for the start of our language classes. Can't say I'm looking forward to starting classes again...It's all very exciting and overwhelming, so please be keeping me in your prayers! Alrighty, someone's about to have a skype interview so I'm going to get off the internet for her. Later gators!