Pozos ("Wells")

I'll follow the theme of naming my entry after where I've been recently. This week I joined the students in Pozos, a little community South of Juventino. My dad flew in on Sunday and I went to pick him up from the airport with the host fam. We were a little late, but everything went well. We immediately went to the home of our host mom's parents to eat dinner, then had a meeting with the gringos (americans), then went to a mexican/gringo dinner at the house of Berna, one of the delegates, people in the parish here. So it was pretty hectic. I think dad was quite overwhelmed.

Monday morning bright and early we went to Pozos. I was promised I would get to drive, since I know Juventino the best of those of us who were to stay in Juventino (the students planned on staying in Pozos), and I was quite excited about that. To practice, I took dad home early so he could descansar (rest) back in Juventino. There had been a HUGE storm Sunday night though, and the entire center of town was one big mud puddle, which evidently made the plumbing not work (as well as the construction on one of the "main" roads), so the students ended up coming home, though I did get to drive the van and they got a ride from one of the church-members in Pozos.

Anyway, Tuesday we had a visit from last year's students, which was pretty fun and incredibly helpful--we were really busy but were able to stay on top of things because we had their help.

Today, however, we did not have the rising third years, and Jose went home too. So we lost several people. We were incredibly busy--it was crazy from 8am until 1pm, and people were not so happy to be waiting in ayunas (fasting). But we did survive. I'm about to call and check on my computer, so I am hopeful...at least I'll get some sort of update.