October comes to an end...

In our last post we promised pictures. The good news is that we have some - the bad news is that we do not have the correct cable to link our camera and computer together - we'll be in search for a cord - keep watching for pictures.

The past week and a half have been very rutine for us - this week we added a couple of afternoons with teachers to help make up a bit of time that we missed during our "sick break". We will also study with teachers a couple of afternoons next week as we do not have school tomorrow. Being in school for 6 hours per day sure is different from just the normal 4.

Tomorrow, November 1st is "The Day of the Dead" of "The Day of the Saints" It is a federal holiday here in Guatemala. Our host family compares it to what Thanksgiving Day is like for us in the states. Their whole family is planning on gathering (there are atleast 35 grandchildren and atleast 12 greatgrandchildren in the family) it should be a great time for them. They don't eat turkey and dressing for their special day - they eat a dish called "fiambre" we're anxious to get to try it. We're told that all kinds of meats (fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, pork, and numerous sausages), vegetables, cheeses and whatever else they can think of goes into the dish. We'll be sure to take picures :) One sign that our host family recently saw advertised that their fiambre included 208 ingredients - interesting isn't it?

Thanks so much for those of you who have recently updated us on what's happening if your lives. We hope that you all received our recent mass email update. We do know that a few of you did not receive it as it bounced back to us. Please send an email to stacijarvis@gmail.com and we'll try to get the kinks worked out. If we somehow missed your email address please email me and I'll send you the email and will add you to the list for future emails.

Thanks so much for your prayers and support!