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Life as Usual


Life in La Fila has returned, more or less, to normal. The rain stopped for a while, and though it’s raining again right now, it’s normal rain, not torrential cats and dogs rain. This rain shouldn’t cause landslides or flooding or mass destruction like last week’s rain. Our showers once again involve water out of a showerhead instead of a bucket and the toilet tank fills all by itself. What wonderful luxuries!

We went back to Spanish class Tuesday and it felt very nice to get back into a routine. On Friday we took the bus to Tarbaca for Core and Tech training, our first time out of the community in over a week. It was pretty exciting to see all of the trainees and hear their crisis stories. Some are still without water and will be for weeks to come. Our favorite quote of the week: "I've run out of baby wipes!"

I’m really looking forward to this week, which is Tech Week. For Tech week, we are changing our class schedule a little to accommodate some technical applications of all of the teaching stuff we’ve been learning so far. We’re supposed to teach English to a small group of community members for a total of 6 hours on Monday and Wednesday. We’ve been split into groups for the teaching and right now are in the recruiting and planning stage. My group will be teaching adults and Kevin’s group will teach their children at the same time. So far, we’ve recruited our host parents, host brothers, and quite possibly our host grandparents. It should be great! We’ll finally be teaching for real!

Thank you so much to all of you that have sent postcards, cards and packages! It’s such a wonderful feeling to receive things from our loved ones back home, so please keep them coming! 

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