Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Few Pictures

The garden that we built in our town. In the front are the tire gardens we build, we cut out used tires, flip them inside out and plant inside them. They are great, because there are a ton of free tires and for people who don't have land, it is an easy way to grow their own vegetables.

My host family: Don Francisco, Jesica Paula, Ricardo and Dona Anacleta.

The fountain in the middle of the plaza in Antigua

Me outside of some ruins in Antigua

Good Morning, I am at the Peace Corps office today in Santa Lucia and have a chance to use a computer that actually works, so I am going to attempt to upload some pictures. Everything is goign well right now, we've planted a garden, learned about worm composting and gave a presentation on gardens to junior high (basicos) kids yesterday afternoon. I had a chance to go to Antigua over the weekend and that was a good time. When we left, we took the wrong camioneta and did not realize it until we were about 1 mile outside of Antigua, when the ayudante told us. The bus stopped, and everyone on the bus looked at the 4 gringos who didn't know how to get home as we shuffled off in shame. It was a pretty funny scene. We finally got on the last bus out of town and made it home. Training is really busy with Spanish class, technical training and all kinds of other stuff they have for us. Well, I hope these pictures turn out okay, please let me know if they don't work.