Its that time again!

Hey family and friends!

I hope everyone had a great month of February! Nate and I have been incredibly busy. So first, let me share our experience with our home. We absolutely love it. If anyone doesn't remember, Nate and I live on the ocean. We are so happy about this. It has changed our lives so much. With the new house came new adventures! I think I have mentioned the cats, rats, bats...right? Well we also have possums, raccoons, and bugs. In the last month, we have had to deal with flying termites!!!!! I cannot express to you about what it is like to have those things coming at you. Luckily the swarm only at night time so we found out if you didn't turn on the lights, then you were fine. Imagine Nate and I not having any lights for two weeks because of them. It was funny. We ended up spraying and getting rid of them...for the time being. We also had a family of cats that decided to move in with us. Literally. They found a way to climb in our attic crawl space and every night we would hear the kitten running back in forth on our roof. Although it reminded us of Lilly, Nate and I made the decision to screen the space so that they wouldn't be able to squat at our house without paying rent! haha...jk. They now live in our yard and we are very happy about it.

We also have a very smart rat that lives at our house. Where....we do not know. But every night we hear it and we put foods up so that he wouldn't eat it. Its kind of funny except Nate spent all yesterday fixing holes in the screens throughout our house...to find that a rat ate through it last night. Poor guy. He decided he was going to triple the screens to prevent it from happening again. Besides the roaches and the increased mosquito's, we are set!


I hope you enjoyed our adventure (and for the most part it all happened in the month of Feb!)

Any who, our projects are going really well. It seems as though since our trip back from the states in December, Nate and I are on a ROLL! Nate is of course, amazing with helping out on the databases and other projects at TCGA. He is still the best PE teacher in PG. The kids love him and look forward to their weekly PE class with him. But, and this the most exciting thing ever, Nate has been working on and has finished, the first ever PC Belize website and forum for volunteers and staff. It is fabulous. I can't wait for it to become official so that everyone can see it. He has spent all of his free time working on for the last month and a half. He is meeting with the staff in the next few weeks to show them. We are all very proud and the staff can't wait for it to be up and running.

Besides Nate, I too have been incredibly busy with secondary projects. I am now helping out with Special Olympics. Its very different in Belize then the states. They boys are practicing soccer for the WORLD CUP in Greece. 8 of them get to go. Isn't that an amazing experience? I have been their support and fundraiser. Its awesome. Also, I am helping to start PC Belize first peer support group. I am incredibly excited to work along with the staff to get this implemented. We have our first meeting tomorrow!

Okay, well, I think that sums it up. Hope everyone is doing well and we miss and love you all. Don't forget to email us and keep in touch.

love,
Michelle (and Nate)