Berlin Update

So its been two weeks now that I´ve been in Berlin. Things have been going better. The hardest part for me being here is that I don´t feel like I´m being useful. I still haven´t been given any tasks besides typing a few things up here and there. The worse thing for me is being bored and then I start to think about home and it makes me sad. To battle my boredom, I have taken up reading anything that I can find and it has helped but I still feel useless. I just hope that Im give some jobs soon. In the mornings, I typically have something to do though because usually there are meetings. I really enjoy the meetings and it gives me a chance to work on my Spanish and learn new words. My favorite meetings are the environmental ones about the mudslide that happened at the end of May or about the water issue because I feel like those are really important. We have various Equipo Maiz books in the office about these issues and they´re one of my favorite things to read. I think I´m pretty well adjusted now but I still have my off days. Sometimes its difficult because I get these questions and they just shock me. One day last week one of the women from Mi Berlim asked me what the United States was like and I just didn´t even know how to respond, let alone in Spanish. Sometimes Ill get asked, do they have this in the United States and itll be the simplest thing and its just weird that they don´t know anything about where I come from. I guess I shouldn´t be saying much because I really didn´t know much about El Salvador before I came here. People are always curious about me though and about what state I come from and such. If Im studying some new words that I just heard people I don´t know will come up to me to see what Im studying. Its just weird because they´re so curious. Usually the people that I don´t know are the most helpful with teaching me new words and having a conversation with me because my Spanish is still very weak. I am really excited because I got invited to go to San Salvador on Saturday with one of my favorite families here. I have been wanting to know what other families other than the one I am staying with are like. Well hopefully the next week will be a little more interesting.