Though some days I feel unmotivated to go to school, to deal with the chaos that each day brings, there isn't a day that goes by where I don't feel lucky to be here or appreciative for this wonderful adventure that I am living. Still, I get frustrated when I spend 45 minutes walking to school, only to find that classes have already been let out or that they'll be released in an hour, that the teachers never showed up or that I only have 1 out of 8 students who came to school... but I can always count on having these frustrations wiped away when I go to the community after school for reading group. 'Reading Group' is something that La Esperanza started doing in order to give children the opportunity to read outside the classroom. For two hours, every day, we bring books to the homes of some of the children who go to school at Elba Zamora.  For us volunteers, this gives us time to just hang out with the kids, play around and read books casually together, to meet the families and really become a little more connected to the community in which we work.  We have gotten rejected by some families saying 'we don't want the gringos coming to our house', but we also have a family who has really taken to us and makes us feel at home. This one family consists of 4 or 5 mothers, the grandmother and grandfather, one father and roughly 15 children... all living in 4 little shacks. When we arrive every day, we're greeted with 15 hugs and we're always given a refreshing drink and something to eat (which is huge since they have little money).  On top of that, we've been invited by them to visit their uncle's finca to collect mangos, avocado, lemons, oranges, bananas and coconut... and then this past Sunday they threw a going away party for one of the volunteers, in which they cooked so much food, bought a pinata filled with candy, they played music and we danced all day, they set up games that we played throughout the afternoon, and they sent us home with hand picked flowers. I feel lucky to be here, to be traveling, and feel even luckier that I have had the chance to meet this incredibly kind family who has really taken us in for it has given me a chance to really be part of, and see, this culture and a great opportunity to become close to some of the locals.