Update

Hope everyone is doing good back home and I’m sure people are getting ready for the summer to come around. I am just getting ready to start up my second winter of the year in Reitoca. Here there are pretty much just two seasons, summer and winter, in summer it is…a little toasty, and winter is also know as the rainy season. However, I am actually looking forward to the rain coming up because with the rain comes much cooler days and nights. It has started to rain off and on and I guess a tropical storm just passed over but it was not too bad. The rain here is really impressive though, not like anything we have back in Oregon. The lightning is bright and intense but it is the thunder that really amazes me. It can absolutely shake the walls and has made me jump more than once with its surprising force. It is nice and refreshing though and so far during every storm I have spent time outside in the hammock under cover listening to it all happening.

Well, I guess that was my reflective portion or whatever, I have been in site about a little over a month now and everything is coming along. My family here is great, and the hammocks are as amazing as ever. I have been going into the office everyday and I am in the process of trying to piece together how things work in the town along with getting crash courses in Spanish. One of my counterparts and I gave a lecture about basic accounting principles to two processing groups last week which was very interesting. I am also in the process of beginning to develop a business plan with a group from a nearby community who make soap, shampoo, and conditioner out of aloe. That’s pretty much the update on the business side of things.

The Spanish is coming paso a paso, step by step, and there is nothing to do except keep practicing. I really do not have a lot to say but I was heading to the internet for this month so I thought I would write something down. Any specific questions shoot them to me in an e-mail and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Hope Shasta was amazing and again to all those graduating best of luck I wish I could be there to celebrate with you all. Try and give me a future plan as it comes around to all the young bucks joining the “real world.”