Update

Just got back from the long-awaited update session at Peace Corps. Drumroll please....it looks like I'm going back to site. I'm not allowing myself to get excited yet; everything still depends on the official assessment that PC Safety will carry out this weekend in Alta. But the Guatemalan government announced earlier today that at midnight tonight the state of siege will officially be lifted. And my project specialist seems quite optimistic that my site, since it isn't in a "hot-zone" will indeed be re-opened, allowing my (and my site-mate's) return.

I'm hesitant to start making plans as of yet...the PC staff will be contacting each one of us on Tuesday to notify us if we will be permitted to return to site. So again I wait. But things look promising, and I can't help but start to make plans and lists in my head about what to do when I get back to site. It will be 2 months and 1 week since I left, and I will have a lot of challenges to face. But if I got through integration, I know that I can get myself through re-integration. That's at least the hope.