HaKUterei!! (It´s really hot.)

Yes, it is currently 100 degrees F here at 5:15pm, and no, it doesn´t really get cooler at night. The new favorite greeting/ conversation filler is hakuterei, or it´s REALLY hot. And everyone says it very emphatically and means it, myself included. The days right now are really just periods of dripping sweat in between showers. I shower at night, then I sweat all through the night. Then I shower again and sweat again til...well forever. You get the picture. Ironically enough, it´s really nice to run once the sun starts getting lower. Yes, it might still be 100 degrees, but if I´m going to be sweating anyway (which I am) I would rather be actually getting something down while I´m doing it.

Have had some bad news from the homefront recently. Don´t really want to get into details, but please keep my whole fam in your prayers if you would. That´s what I´m doing right now. All my love!

On a lighter note, last week I participated in a successful traseago, or wild hive capture. We chopped into a coconut tree where the hive was, transferred a good amount of the comb onto panels, and after an hour of searching desperately for 1 queen in the midst of 30,000 bees, my friend Jordan caught her in his bare hands. It was AWESOME. Definitely a moment I will never forget. The sun was starting to set behind the coconut trees, I was sweating buckets in my beesuit, we had been searching for so long already, and I was praying, PLEASE let us find her soon. If we hadn´t, the whole process would have been for naught, because bees will follow only their queen (very loyal subjects). But it worked!!

I am heading out of town next week for Long Field Practice, which is 5 days of working with a PCV in their site. We go in groups of 4, with a language teacher, and live the life. I´m pretty excited, also because our plan is to culminate the week teaching a women´s comite about how to make soap. Cool, eh?

Two weeks from today, I will find out what my site will be, a.k.a. where I will be living for the next two years. Also, just a reality check for myself : I AM LIVING IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Still can´t quite believe it.