Future Site!!

So I am so stoked about my future site!! There is so much to love about Cabayu Reta! I met up with my community contact and Anne, the volunteer I am going to be following up on Friday. Anne has done SOOOO much in the community. Not only did she help organize two really awesome women's commisions and complete a fogon project, she also worked a ton in the school and speaks killer guarani. And just recently she started another fogon project and a sink and concrete floor project that I will be continuing. One of the big advantages of being a follow up volunteer is that a lot of times they already have projects going on that you can get started on pretty quickly. What I was really dreading is that if I was a first time volunteer you spend at least three months explaining what the heck you are doing there and figuring out things that the community needs. On one hand its a little scary having to go straight into site with a really high set of expectations, but on the other its so nice to finally be able to DO SOMETHING instead of just training for it.
But even if I didn't have this fogon project to work on, I'm sure I would have plenty to do anyways. There is a nice, well-equipped health post in my community which also serves four outlying smaller communities. I'm pretty sure there is enough work to do there that I could just go in and help out nearly every day for the next two years and not get bored at all. There are only two people who work there (the head nurse is my community contact), and are both super hardworking.
Besides that, the scenery is gorgeous. I have an abandoned  rock quarry about 3k away from my house that is basically a huge swimming hole. I got to check it out with Anne and Miriam, the volunteer closest to me. I am so lucky to have her so close by, shes only about 3k from my site and will be an awesome resource for learning how to get started in my community. She already wants me to help her with some workshops she is doing at her school in a few months.
While I was there on my visit I got to meet a lot of people in the community. Peace Corps wants us to live with a family for the first three months in site in order to get to know people and work more on our language skills. I think I am going to spend my first month with the family of the president of the fogon commission, whos daughter also was Anne's best friend in site. After, I'm going to live with my contact for a month (who actually has a modern bathroom...que suerte!!) then either of the nurses at the health post. Afterward, I really hope to live in the house that Anne had been living in. Its a little complicated because her neighbor who owns the house really wants me to live there, but her family (who also part owns the house) wants to leave it open for when they visit once a year. My contact offered to talk to her and I hope she does. The house is in a perfect location, and all of Anne's stuff (and the stuff she borrowed from her neighbors) would be available for me to use. Keep your fingers crossed that my awesome contact will make it happen for me!