New home for the next two years!

Its crazy how fast time has gone by! Yesterday I found out the site I will be living and working in for the next two years. Pacayitas, it is in the Cartago Province, the closest major town is Turrialba. Turrialba is known for their cheese, its a special Costa Rican cheese that tastes like nothing else I have had before. Near my town there are two cheese factories, a Guanabana marmalade making place, coffee farms, rural tourism opportunities and a ton more. I am in the mountains and have been told that there is some great white water rafting areas around and a TON of awesome hiking opportunities (I am pretty close to Chirripo as well so that will be one of the first things that I will be checking off my list) so I cant wait!  The community size is around 1,100 but that includes the the closest towns around as well so it is actually quite small. I am the second volunteer to work in my site but the first one was there around 20 years ago so for a lot of them it will be the first time working with Peace Corps:) Oh and just on a side note, we had a mini mock Thanksgiving yesterday during our site assignment celebration and about 75% of us got food poisoning :/ Happy Thanksgiving lol!