Planning the month

Today we had our first meeting with Ami San Lucas. We met up at nine at la Iglesia Principal (the big Catholic church in the middle of town) to walk over, but then Lorenzo (the main person who we work with at Ami) called and said he wouldn't be ready until 10...running on Guatemala time as usual. So we walked down to a coffee shop because I hadn't gotten coffee yet that morning, and I knew I would have a terrible headache if I didn't get some. Then we walked over to San Juan, which is the neighboring town and about a 30 minute walk away. We got there a few minutes before 10, and of course our meeting with everyone didn't start until about 10:30. But, we were able to roughly plan out what we're going to do for the month which was nice. We decided that instead of making garden boxes in schools (our original plan) we're going to make with families. We're hoping we can reach at least 75 families in I think 12 different communities while we're here. We still have to figure out where to get filters from, a problem we're currently working on. Mark is trying to get in contact with Potters for Peace in Honduras and Israel (the doctor at Ami) is trying to get in touch with some of his friends in Nicaragua. Hopefully we'll be able to get some for relatively inexpensive. After planning out our month, we returned to San Pedro for lunch. Lunch is the big meal here, which is something I'm still getting used to. But, it is always a lot of food, which means I am fuller once dinner rolls around. My biggest problem is that I get hungry between breakfast and lunch, because we usually eat breakfast around 8 or earlier and then don't have lunch until 1 or 2, because we're out doing stuff until then. Anyways, after lunch I had Spanish lessons. I was a little unsure about them at first, but I think it's going to be a lot of help now. It's one on one which basically means I can practice whatever I want basically--so I'm reviewing all those nasty grammar tenses that I've been ignoring since the last time I took a Spanish grammar class. Anyways, we don't start working in communities until Thursday, until then we have to prepare what we're going to say and get what supplies we can.