Feliz dia de independencia!

Hey all. HAPPY 4th of JULY!
Internet is back on, or well I guess on for the first time. I just bought my Tigo stick and I get 15 days of free high speed internet acess.  Right now I'm in Xela.  We just got in today. I'm here with a group of about 20. We're here to meet our Guatemalan counterparts and then we head out to our sites for a week.  I'm pretty excited! My site is a small aldea or town outside of San Andres Xchul in the department of Totonicopan.  I'm kinda nervous because the people of the aldea speak K'ich'e, which is a super cool Myan language, but we've only had one class for a few hours.  The packet of info they gave me on the site says that most people understand spanish but everyone speaks K'ich'e. 

I'll be the only Peace Corps volunteer in the town but there's gonna be a few volunteers in the near by city. It will be nice that I'm not alone alone and it will be nice that I get to work in my own little part of Guatemala too. We'll see how it goes. 

Other than that everything is going great.  I'm just sad that training is almost over.  I feel like it went so fast.  On site visit we took most of our stuff so we don't have to take it on a public bus when we go for good.  it was sad when i took off from my host family this morning.  they're so cool, yesterday we made an alfombra which literally means a carpet but it was a carpet made on the sidewalk outside the house.  it was made of colored sawdust and it took like 3-4 hours to make and 3min to wreck.  it was for the celebration of corpus christi.  i took pictures, you should check out my fb site when i load them (which may be a while, may be tomorrow).  So what we did was lay out a layer of colored sawdust and then put a stencil on top of it and put some other colors in the form of grapes and leaves and flowers.  then there was a parade around the town and the preist had to walk all around (about 2 hours) and walk over all of the alfombras that the people had made.  what an awesome tradition. take forever to make a decorative thing and then have people walk all over it and then sweep it up and do it again next year.

oh also, on saturday (july 2nd) we had our 4th of july party.  there was a talent show and i daced hula.  yay. it was so much fun and a great opportunity to meet other volunteers.