swearing in and first days in site

and so all of a sudden, training ends and I am at my site!
Swearing in (which I keep wanting to call graduation, but it's not the same I know), was quite the whirlwind. One day we're with our host families (who have become like our real families) and the next day we leave at 6am to get to San Salvador, where we meet out new counterparts, then have swearing in, go to the hotel, have a big taco dinner with the group of volunteers who swore in in September and then have a giant party with all the volunteers at a salsa club downtown. The next day we wake up very hungover and head to our sites on our own, it's all quite overwhelming.
Well here I am in my new site. The area is really beautiful. It's about two hours or so from San Salvador, and is in the green hills here. The town itself is very pretty and well maintained, I haven't had a chance to go into the rural areas yet, but am looking forward to doing so. It's also very, very hot. Everyone in town keeps commenting on how I am sweating all the time! Hopefully I will get used to it.
I'm lucky because I happen to be following a previous volunteer who was apparently a rock star. Everyone in the town is obsessed with him, and as such, they are all really excited to have me here too. Though it can be a little overwhelming at times hearing ´well jack used to do this, and jack used to do that´ all day long, it is nice to have people be so welcoming to me and to be guided by the type of work he did (though he worked with youth, not the municipality like I hopefully will). Already one of the families he was really close to have really taken me in. The father is actually my official counterpart in the office (though he didn't come to San Salvador for counterpart day), which is great. He has 5 daughters, two of them took me into the closest city today to go grocery shopping, which was really helpful as navigating the mercado for the first time can be quite overwhelming.
Also, they found me an amazing place to live. I am living with an elderly couple who have a giant house in the town. The house is used for all the town's gatherings. For example, when I first arrived there there was a group of 15 teenagers practicing their dances for this Saturday's quinziniera (basically like the Latin version of a bar mitzvah, except it happens only for girls when they turn 15). Since I'm living in the house where it's being held, I get to go, I'm really excited. Oh, and did I mention the house has a swimming pool? I almost feel guilty because I have friends who are living in towns without running water or electricity and here I am with a swimming pool! Should make it easier to bear the heat.
In any case, today is my first day of work. You may ask, why are you updating your blog while you're at work? Well, I was supposed to have a meeting with the social promoter, the man who works with community development organizations and we were going to go out into the country side to see a new housing project they have out there, but when I showed up this morning it turns out he left over the weekend to go illegally to the U.S. so he's no longer here. Oh the problems with trying to work in El Salvador...
I decided to use the opportunity of free internet to update my blog but I should probably get back to work soon, or rather try and find out what my work will be. Hope it all works out!