From: Jessica
We have not posted a ‘real’ blog since sometime in December – so here is goes! As most of you know (see earlier blogs) we got a dog named Maya. She was pretty much a gift from our neighbor, Dinora. Dinora told us what kind of dog she is in Spanish (of course), but (of course) we didn’t really understand what she said. So, we still don’t know exactly what type of dog she is. Our host family calls her a perrita india, which I think means a mutt. Today, little Mayita was supposed to be spayed. BUT we got to the place and the ¨vet¨was like OOOHHH I forgot to tell you yesterday that we have to keep her for 5 days and the price is triple from what I told you yesterday - and I might not be a vet! He said something like that anyway...so no surgery for Maya. Now we are stuck in El Salvador with her until about 1 o´clock. She is sleeping in the internet cafe right now.
We have just about finished last year’s classes with Educatodos. We should be done around the middle of January and will be starting the new school year (this school year) at the end of February/beginning of March. At that time we will go back to having classes two full days a week (currently we have three full days of classes), but Brian and I will be teaching all subjects. I will probably teach 8th grade and Brian will teach 9th grade. We might switch off the subjects just so it makes things a little more interesting for us. I am having trouble teaching right now since I do not understand everything that the book is trying to convey because it is in Spanish! Hopefully, that will get easier and easier. That is our plan for next year, but we are not exactly sure what will happen because our ‘boss’ was not hired back. Our new ‘boss’ lives in another town and has not yet contacted us. Technically, we are not supposed to be teaching all of the subjects anyway, only English. Maybe he will find someone to teach the other subjects…who knows.
I know I mentioned in my email that things have been kind of wacky around here. Our computer center (the one and only in Colomoncagua) has not had internet since the 23rd of December. Right after the 1st we had crazy strong winds – power was going in and out, parts of our roof were crashing into our backyard, and cell phones had zero service. This lasted for about 4 or 5 days. A couple of days ago we didn’t get water and found out that our land lord didn’t pay the water bill. He promptly paid it and the water came the next day! Then, yesterday Brian and I were in the kitchen when all of the appliances and lights turned off. We thought the power just went out, but when we went into the house we had lights. We figured we blew a fuse, but had no idea where to find the circuit breaker box thing! Brian had to walk around town being sent from place to place until he found the guy that had the key to the place where the circuit box is. He flipped the switch back and all was fine!
Our town, Colomoncagua, is absolutely beautiful! We are so lucky to have such a pretty site and the surrounding area is all beautiful as well. We have been taking various hikes into the mountains of our site with different people from our town and finding places to go on our own. Posted are some pictures of our hikes. We also have really been enjoying the weather here. It hasn’t been too hot and at night it still cools down quite significantly. Other towns nearby are supposedly quite hot – the town we visit in El Salvador is SUPER hot. I am so happy that we are high enough in the mountains that we don’t get the extreme heat and low enough so that it doesn’t get extremely cold. I am extremely happy with our town and would not want any other site – I hope you can all come visit because our little town is super cute. Plus, we have THREE paved roads – that is totally big time people!
And here is a video of our house.
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