I am sorry I haven’t blogged in a month. Its just that not too many crazy or exciting things have happened. I guess things seem to have become normal and so I don’t feel like theyre worth blogging about because its just my life here.
I’m still working with consejo. We painted a mural (we didn’t paint it but got a local painter to paint it what we wanted). It says “cuando hayas talado el ultimo arbol, cuando hayas matado el ultimo animal, cuando hayas contaminado el ultimo rio, te daras cuenta de que el dinero no se come.”
We’re also still working on our huerto (garden), selling chocolate (making chocolate from cacao to sell), and building our recycling Project.
My English summer class ended which was bitter sweet. There were a good 5 kids i’m going to miss. But now were friends so ill see them around and hang out. We had a presentation with the parents and everything, the other volunteer made a video and I had some of my students give a dialogue in English.
(I even got a certificate!!) A friend of consejo juvenil’s house burned down. This is fairly common. Its not too common but not unknown either as the houses are made of wood or bamboo, the heat and the electricity wires aren’t in the best conditions. Everything, everything burned down. I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like starting completely over from the beginning with everything, documents, pictures, everything. We went around the town and collected food, clothes, and money (we raised around $80 and with that we went and bought more necessities—soap, plates, pots, cups, toothbrushes, underwear, etc).
I made a dog house. With the help of Shantonu the other volunteer. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned but I have a street dog. She was dying around the first few months I was here. The most severely malnutrition dog I have ever seen. She couldn’t even walk normal, she trembled and shook so much that leyla joked that she had parkinsons. But I gave her food and estefania vaccinated her against worms and she slowly gained wait and lost the shake. At first she wouldn’t come near me and I had to put the food down and back away for her to eat it but after a few months we became friends and now she basically is mine and lives at my house. After she recovered she went into selo (heat) and was a machona and all the other street dogs were chasing her. End result: my street dog is preggers. Dogs are usually pregnant from 60-80 days so she has around 3 weeks left of pregnancy and is getting pretty chubs. We made her a dog house outside because leyla doesn’t want her living inside and I want her to give birth here at the house and not some hole in the ground. She sleeps in it and everything!! Hopefully that is where she decides to have her babies and hopefully she doesn’t have them in the middle of the night so I can see it!! 
We made a boat out of trees and traveled down the rio grande in it. It was pretty amazing, about 2 hrs and mad fun. We crashed, fell out, relaxed, swam in the deep parts, saw iguanas and just about everything. It is definitely something id like to get going as a regular thing and something the tourists would be super interested in doing. In the fotos that's leylas brother Roque being a pirate. hahah.
School has started again (no more vacation) and I am teaching health 3 days a week, 4 clases a day (mas o menos) to the sophomores, juniors and seniors (the system is a lot different but more or less them). Today I had my first classes with the sophomores and it went okay, not as bad as I had imagined but not super miraculously. Little by little they’re learning and its better than nothing. I’m basically just giving small charlas on nutrition, chronic diseases, exercise, sex ed and either environmental health or first aid (I haven’t decided yet). I will probably be teaching for about a month and a half.
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