Many Pictures

Me with the 1st grade class and teacher.

Behind us around the chalkboard is the abcs we made.

Joe helping plow the school garden


After first day of building the bathroom

The outside just about finished

Our Future Home in July!

Carpinchos at the park in Villarrica

Joe's favorite animal....carpinchos (giant rodents)

Joe and his carpinchos

Feeding Time

Joe and I are in the Asuncion right now to go to meetings at the Peace Corps office. We have been in our site for one month now and have already began some work. I have made some abc cards for 1st and 2nd grade and also clocks in 3rd grade. We reused cardboard boxes for all of the materials. I think I will become pretty good at reusing items and might take that back to me the United States. Joe has also started some work...he has worked hard on our new bathroom and also getting the school garden ready. Our school is really excited to have a school garden and made it huge so we will have a lot of work to do. Along with the garden Joe and I will be giving nutrition talks in the classrooms.

We have actually had some colder weather. It has been rainy and chilly but people have promised us it still gets colder. It wouldn't be so cold if you could get warm inside your house but it is the same inside as outside. People in our community ask us why we are cold because it gets much colder where we are from, but we also have heaters inside our houses. June and July are the cold months here, I don't think we will be washing many of our clothes because we have to do it by hand, outside, with cold water. We can't believe it is summer vacation at home when we are cold here. Congratulations Toni on graduating from high school. I am very sad that we could not be there. I also was sad to miss Lane's baptism but I really loved the pictures.

Steve and Laura we got our package! Thank you so much! We are so excited to watch High School Musical 3 for the next 2 years!

We miss you all very much.