still alive

so i know its been a while since my last post, and i dont really have any good excuse, but i have been busy. After El Salvador we went back into our homes in san pedro and finished off our final papers and wrote our spanish final exam and did our final oral. For most of us, it went really well. We had a free day before taking off for tactic agian, so we decided to hike volcan Agua. Its not an active volcano, but it has an amazing view. It was 3700 meter up. I was feeling sick agian, didnt eat the day before and i didnt have any energy. i probably shouldnt have gone, but im glad i did. it was one of the hardest things i've ever done. I prayed for strength each step up. At the top, we couldnt see much, except for the clouds bellow us. But Fuego, the active volcano, was erupting nearby. we couldnt see it, but could definitly hear it erupting and rumbling.
We had to run down the mountain because we didnt want to get stuck in the dark. Comming home from santa maria, the town at the base of the volcano, was fun. no buses, taxis or tuk-tuk's were running. eventualy we found a guy with a truck who we paid to drive us back.
the very next day we left very early and sore for tac-tic. This time we didnt do as many kids ministry stuff, but we did a lot of painting and moved a lot of block. We painted the inside of a churh in tac-tic and the outside of a new school nearby and moved block into the back of trucks and then unloaded them at a construction site where they are building another school.
And good news. I went to the docter the other day, and he didnt think that i have a parasite, which means i should hopefully stay healthy. but i do have a cold, and i just gave it to everyone else here - suckers.
And we have some new freinds. there are 10 students from trinity who are living and taking classes with us. So its a big diffrence from 7 to 17 people on campus, but i think its a good change.