Estoy en Puchuncavi, or near there rather...

so this was probably the most terrifying day of my life.  we left santiago at 6am after only 4.5 hours of sleep of course, and we arrived in vina del mar at 9am only to meet our families at 930 or 10am.  my mama, principal and host teacher were all there to greet me!  in addition, we shared a van w/ two other of the vols who will be living the closest to me and their host teacher and host mama and papa.  we then drove from vina del mar to quintero along the mar, through renaca and con con. we stopped in quintero to see jeremy's host school where he will be teaching high school. upon entering one student happily announced that there were gringos in the building.  after a little conversation with the principal, of which i understood literally about 5 %, we went to las ventanas to drop off leigh ann and jeremy at their host family's house.  then me and my host teach and mother went to the host teacher's house, across the street from my shcool in downtown puchuncavi. it is the ONLY school in puchuncavi and therefore there is high school and chiquitos in the same place.  it was totally overwhelming.  we visited one of the english teachers and the students were literally hitting each other in the background with notebooks!!!!!  however, the host teachers are awesome and don't want me to have a horrible experience.  i will be working with the best behaved classes apparently. i dont want to filter my classes by behavior, i want everyone to have access to education, but jesus christ, i dont know about that. also, it looks like i might have friday off if not part of monday off as well. like maybe a half day monday.  that way i can travel on the weekends which would be fantastic.  i have to take the bus to school bc im technically not even in puchuncavi so it doesnt look like i'll be getting that far out however tonight we had 12 family members over during/after onces, which is their cena, which consisted of eggs and avocado on bread with nescafe con leche.  i actually found it delish but it will probably be the same meal everyday.  my family is amazing and so nice. they speak no english which is perfect. we live on a ranch with horses and lambs which i will see tomorrow! i live with a mama, a papa, and their 27 year old son and tonight one of their grandchildren sofia is spending the night. i think that is fairly often for them.  in addtion, they have 2 older daughters and another grandson julian who is adorable!  after lunch we went to make some marmalade which my mother, malvina, sells at various markets around the area (ranging from valpo) to the andes which i obviously said i would help her with! hellllllo, the andes!  i really think that i have lucked out. my family is super warm and accepting of my horrible spanish and quietness and my host teacher speaks english and is super sweet! puchuncavi looks small, quaint and cute but i dont even live in the town! but there is a bus stop no more that 30 ft from my front door so i can easily go to horcon, maintencillo, las ventanas, valpo or zapallar where things may get more exciting.  having said that, my family definitely likes a good asado, ie bbq, and we will be having one soon for me i think! im super excited about it all! theyve had vols before, one of which was a vegetarian so this is not a new thing to them!  im feeling very positive about this all.  having said that, im pretty nervous about tomorrow. it was wild at school yesterday but here we go! ahhhh.