Its only been a couple days

and it feels like I have been here for so long! So when I arrived we waited in the airport for a while and the country directors (people in charge of us) kept commenting on how nice the AC was, I kind of blew it off but it was not a joke...the house we live in is literally a sauna and AC is non existent here and I feel like I never stop sweating, but I know I will get used to it and at least we have an actual house. Most of the people live in little structures of cinder block and tin and everything is up on stilts because of the flooding. Coming here and seeing all of this is incredibly eye opening, and all the people are so nice. At night a couple of us will do Insanity to work out and I know that's challenging the structural integrity of the house given the rotting wooden floors that already have holes in them....but the house is safe! There is bars on all the windows and big fence and gate. As the country directors told us on the first night "dont tell anyone where we live...except everyone knows the house of 18 americans" it is a small little town it has a more Rastafarian/Caribbean feel then latino. They rather speak english then spanish and they speak a lot of creole and will mix it with english and its impossible to understand. I got here on Thursday night and so friday we went and worked in the school, it was incredible how many of the kids couldn't even read. We helped grade paper and read the exams to the kids. The kids will get out of school soon and one of the projects we are going to do is a reading camp and computer camp. We get the weekends off so we went swimming in a river and drank coconut water out of coconuts and have just been hanging out and playing cards. The food is all delicious, every frozen pineapple? Try it, it is so good. Sleeping is probably the hardest we all sleep on these little foam pads on the floor and dont forget to put on your 40% deet bug spray before you go to bed! But it has been so much, and I have been loving every minute of it, I cant wait for this week to work with the peeople more! Still havent figured out how to post pictures :( hasta luego!!