So far so good

I just got back yesterday from my site visit. It was a long trip down and an even longer trip back up. I took the bus from Quito to Loja overnight on Saturday with three other volunteers. I met up with my counterpart on Sunday morning at the bus station in Loja where we then we back to her house for the day. I will be working with her while at my site for the next two years I´m here and I´m super excited. She´s great. I met her whole family who are all super nice and very welcoming.
Monday morning we caught the 4:30 am bus to my site and arrived just in time to open the doors of the Sub-Centro de Salud (SCS) at 8am. There was already a herd of people waiting to see the doctor. I spent the day following around mis compadres who work at the SCS to get a feel for what services they offer and how a normal day is run.
Tuesday I went to the different neighborhoods outside of the town to give free rabies vaccines with my counterpart. In the afternoon, I had the opportunity to go into the highschools to give Hep B vaccines. The reactions of the kids when they found out I was from the U.S. was overwhelming. I had about five questions coming at me at once. It´s hard for me to understand one question in Spanish, let alone five. It was a great experience and I´m excited to go back and teach some health lessons to the schools in my community.
The town is beautiful. It´s still in the Sierra region of the country but is closer to the coast, so it isn´t as chilly. The town I will be living in is on the side of a mountain, with stairs and steep streets. The people are all very welcoming and are all very interested in who I am, what I will be doing there and what the Peace Corps is.
For the first three months there I will be living out of a hotel room but will be able to get my own apartment after that. My counterpart has already told me I am welcome to come home with her to Loja any weekend I want. I don´t think it will be too hard to intergrate into the community. I´m going to try to be the friendliest person ever, even if I am only an intermediate Spanish speaker.