Site Assignment!

Last week I got my site assignment. I will be going to a small town/village (canton) called Milingo Abajo which is about 5 mins away from a town called Suchitoto. I've heard that Suchitoto is a really nice, colonial, tourist town with a lot of history and culture. I'll be in the department of Cuscatlan, which is near the center of the country near the capital San Salvador. So I'll be about an hour and a half away from the capital which is pretty close. I might be one of the closest to the capital, which will make for easy travelling in general and visiting other volunteers. I will be replacing the current volunteer in Milingo, and she will be leaving in October or November. Her name is Katherine...... which will be a little confusing... I have heard of some other volunteers who were called the previous volunteers name throughout their whole 2 years of service... but at least when they call me by her name I won't realize it. :)
---So this is the last week of training and we have out final exit Spanish interviews..... I tested in at a high enough level to pass so as long as my spanish didn't get any worse, I'll be good to go. Tonight I'll be packing up all my luggage and tomorrow it will be picked up and sent to the capital... Thursday we will meet out community counterparts. I have two counterparts in the community, one is the Director of the school and the other is a community member. I will be working with both of them for the next two years so it will be exciting to meet them! Then we will be sworn in at the Ambassadors house and the Vice President of El Salvador might be there...pretty important stuff. Thursday and Friday night we will be celebrating our last nights together as a training group before we all go off on our own! Saturday is off to Cuscatlan! Then for two months I'll be doing community contacts and diagnostics basically before we come back for two weeks of technical training.
---Other then that..... I'm starting to crave pupusas (the national food of tortillas stuffed with beans and cheese or other stuff) ......what else, my clothes are starting to all get stretched out from hand washing and line drying them... but I got a pair of pants altered for 50 cents by the neighbor and she did it in about 5 minutes- perfect fit!.... There was a tarantula in my house yesterday. I have an ear infection....
---Two weekends ago we all went as a group to the beach for our weekend off... the beach was called El Tunco. It was BEAUTIFUL! it was awesome to relax and have fun after being a little stressed and busy from training.... we had a really great time. the waves were HUGE. AND we ate at a mexican restaurant and I had a burrito. I thought that was pretty big news and I should share it with you all.
---We finished the project with the youth group we formed in Molineros- we did a big garbage pick up in the community and collected plastic bottles and made planters with them, decorated them and planted trees in them. It was all facilitated service learning so the kids came up with and voted on all the ideas, sort of like the projects I did with Earth Force in Charleston- so it was great I had that experience to work on. Thanks Earth Force!
---I've been doing the rosary every night for about 2-3 weeks with my host family. I think it means a lot to them that I do it with them and I've made a lot of progress on being able to say the prayers in Spanish . I've got the hail Mary DOWN on superspeed. They gave me a rosary ring and a prayer book as a gift, which I though was very sweet.
--- ok so I know I have a million more things to say, but of course I can't think of them all right now and I'm about to go have my interview! There have been some photos tagged of me on facebook so check those out until I'm able to post some on here... I'm just always strapped for time. MISS YOU ALL!! Adios!