Touch Down

Well after trying to keep in touch with so many important people with such little computer time in the past week, I decided to try the "kill two birds" approach". This will be my attempt at keeping you all informed and in touch about our travels. If your not interested in reading, no offense taken.

We have been in Gallon Jug, Belize for exactly a week now. We arrived in Belize City last Monday only to find out that we had packed duffel bags to the brim, and forgot the most important things for our actual job--or lesson plans. With ideas of how our principal would react to our only real pre-school responsibility running through our head, we proceeded on. Upon arriving in Belize City, he seemed surprise that leaving our lesson plans in the states was the biggest of our worries. We simply had them mailed next-day delivery to the principals wife who was still in the states, and she would bring them with her in the following week.

We headed about an hour north to Orange Walk Town where we loaded up on a months supply of groceries and vegetables. As we filled the truck with groceries, our luggage, and the principals new text books, we noticed a quickly approaching rainstorm. Cono! The principal through the car in mash mode and headed another hour and a half northwest to a little village where we picked up our kindergarten teacher and took cover under a tree. Siboney, who had been sitting on a plane and in a car for the last 7 hours, finally got a chance to get out and run around with half a dozen little Belizians who were not fazed at all by the little rubia. Welcome to Belize.

We greeted the family of our Kindergarten teacher for an hour or so, loaded up her supplies, and headed back on the road. We had avoided the rainstorm! We headed on another road for about an hour through a Mennonite community and then set out on our homestretch towards Gallon Jug farm. The Gallon Jug road was about a 45 minute journey through 130,000 acres of rainforrest. We were entrenched. About half way through the journey, the principal told us to keep our eyes peeled for wild life. Not a minute after those words left his mouth, we saw two sets of eyes in the road. Two Jaguars playing with eachother. Siboney was sitting with my in the front seat, so you know what her new favorite animal is...No more dinosaurs and sharks. Our principal, who has lived in Gallon Jug for the last 8 years, has never seen two Jags. together before. Apparently quit a sighting. Welcome to Belize.

We continued on the road for another 30 minutes and finally reached our destination at about 7pm, though it felt more like midnight. We entered our room, which is in fact above the horses stables, jumped in our king sized bed, threw on "Shark Tale" and fell out. Zoia and I woke in a very "gringo fashion" at about midnight to drench ourselves in bug spray.