first day in new town

hello again!

i am writing from (unable to say for security reasons), which is actually the town Jenny lives in. One of the other volunteers, Loehrl´s mom brought us here, because we are not allowed to walk around town alone since we are new. I live in the town called #####. It is literally a 5 minute walk from Jenny´s town. There are 3 volunteer in my town and 3 in Jennys town. We are grouped by language ability so obviously Jenny and I are in the 2 low groups. But we are learning a lot. My new family is very nice. They have had 15 volunteers stay with them in their lives and my mother is the mother of our language teacher. The town I am in is town worldwide for its pottery and it is pretty much a complete artisan town. My house has a store connected to it that sell some of the pottery that my father´s brother makes in a different house in the San Juan de Oriente. We had our first language class today, Survival Spanish. All of our classes are with the other peace corps volunteer in town in eachothers houses. Its a lot of work, but im excited about it. We have spanish 3-4 days a week for 6hrs. and technical training on our TEFL stuff 2 days a week. Foods been good so far, my mother, Ana Maria, cook a good meal with chicken and rice for lunch, and im looking forward to dinner because im always hungry. The fruit here is amazing also, all different fruits that would never be in Minnesota. Today, when we were waiting to come to Catarina to use the internet, another volunteer, Tony, and I spent some time sitting on the outdoor patio in rocking chairs eating a fruit called mamones, which i cant really describe but its pretty sweet. We also have many juice made from tons of different fruits, including pitayaha, which is bright fusia(sp) its unbelieveably bright. Thats all I can think of right now, tonight will be my first night under my mosquito net in my cama de matrimonio. hope all is well, go twins!

Jeff