First Week in Site!

Hello everyone! We are now official in our site and working as volunteers. We did enjoy staying in a hotel and having our independence. Right now we are living with a host family: a teacher, a librarian, a 13 year old boy, and a 9 year old boy. The 9 year old reminds us a lot of Thomas so it is fun to play with him. We enjoy living with them....we have our own room above the house with a bathroom. Houses here usually do not have 2 stories. We sit out on the balcony and looking at the stars while playing games on our new cell phones. We made our family pizza one night but they make it different here, you cook all the ingredients first and then put it in the oven for 2 minutes. The dough is already made.
The second day we were here we went to the school and they had a fiesta because the next day was Teacher´s Day. They should have that at home! :) The next two days the kids didn´t have school so we learned how to wash our laundry by hand and went to Villarrica. It takes about an hour by bus to get to Villarrica, which is where we are right now. We met up with other volunteers and explored the city. The rest of this week I plan to go to the school and Joe is going to visit the health post and find some work to do. I visited the school yesterday and observed 3rd and 5th grade. They teach a lot differently here, most of the time kids are copying off the board into their notebooks because they don´t have textbooks. But sometimes the teachers just sit there and make them copy without teaching them anything. It is going to difficult to try to get them to use a different method of teaching.
We have decided on living in the house that we need to build a bathroom. We saw some other houses but this one was the best. We will need to take some pictures of the bathroom in process.
I am not sure how often we will get to the internet but I will try to post as much as we can. We are looking into internet but we would have to put up an antenna and we don´t want the whole community to know we have a computer or internet.
I am excited to see pictures of Toni at prom so Mom and Dad send some soon!
Happy Mother´s Day on Sunday.....moms you can call us on Sunday if you want....that is reverse but if you use an international calling card it should work well.
We miss you all!