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This is a picture I drew in class the other day; Family, can you tell what it is?

Things are going alright in Santa Teresa. Although, we have been without water and electricity for about 3 days. We did get electricity today, but still no water. I did have a bucket of water in my shower, as does everyone for just such an occasion, but the water outage doesn't usually last this long. It's definitley rough and I don't smell too good either. Today there were crowds of people all over town either waiting to get water from someone's house that has a well or from water trucks that will periodically pass through town.

This is the youth group that we formed and have just started working with. As part of the Peace Corps Community Health project, one of our projects in site has to involve working with a youth group in some way and teaching them the basics of health, sex ed, HIV/AIDs ed. etc. There is a big problem here with adolescent pregnancies( I say adolescent because they are not necessarily teenagers), so there is a big focus sex ed, family planning, condom use, and things like self-esteem. In training we have to form a group and do a mini community project and have weekly meetings where we give them charlas on the topics I mentioned above and anything else they are intersted in. For our group, they chose to do a periodical focusing on Youth interests in Santa Teresa. It is really pretty impressive to me that they chose this, because some of the options were creating a sports team or painting a mural, which seem a lot easier.

Anyway all of this is sort of like practice since we will only be here for another 9 weeks or so.

This is the Sant Teresa crew--Jessie, Nick, me and Elisa. Anna-Elisa reminds me of you in almost every way possible, its really bizarre. She even walks the same and speaks the same (uses difficult words when a simple one would suffice :) ). Its a good group and so far we all get along pretty well, just get sick of seeing each other every day. The weekends get a little rough because we are not allowed to travel and there is very little to do. We went on a long walk today, but got finished at about 11 and still have the whole day. Actually, we can travel a little bit, to like the next biggest town-but there's not a lot to do that doesn't cost money and we dont get very much of that right now. Peace Corps was not kidding when they said they would treat us like children during training. But in 9 weeks I will have all the independence I could want, so I can make it. So all in all, I am well. As for my Spanish, I don't know how many new things I have learned yet, but I dont care as much when I speak and make a mistake, which the first hurdle for me I think.

I hope you all are doing great!! Take care

♥Danielle