Erosion in the living room

Saludos a todos!
Well I know it´s been a while since I wrote. I don´t necessarily get into the office at OIKOS very often. I live half an hour away from it, so on days that OIKOS has meetings in Piedra Azul, then they´ll bring me back to the office for the afternoon, but that only happened once last week and we weren´t in the office for very long because in the afternoon we went to the school in El Chirrión, Piedra Azul to give a puppet show. Well Judith and I just helped set up and then watched the show with the kids, which was absolutely marvelous. It combined kids´ songs, environmental protection/soil conservations, being ready for natural disasters (the show centered around the volcano Chapaparastique which we live close to) and even women´s rights in a really fun enjoyable manner. The two puppeteers were great with creating different voices and characters, both people and animals.
On days that I don´t go in to OIKOS I´m mostly just around the house/yard. We mostly just go in the house at night an spend the rest of the day outside. In the mornings I feed the fish and (sometimes) let the hens out of their cage. I help my host mom sweep the yard and I wash a couple pieces of clothing in the pila, or cement sink structure which is used for basically everything, washing food, dishes, clothes, hands, etc. Every morning my host mom sweeps the whole entire clearing in front of the house and around the pila and behind the kitchen. She sweeps away the leaves, chicken poop, and anything anyone may have discarded in the yard from plastic to seeds, and sweeps it all off to the side, to designated trash piles/unswept areas, raising clouds of dust. I can only imagine what kind of erosion it causes to be sweeping the dirt all the time, but that´s how they make things presentable, how they tidy up, like vaccuming the living room. And well, it´s the area we stay all day in and where people come to visit.
During the day day I help my mom make tortillas - I´m slowly learning how, or accompany Carlos as he takes the cows out to the field, or lay in the hammock and read. Lots of ppl often come to visit. A couple times I´ve gone to spend the night @ Daisy´s daughter´s house.
Well more later.... right now I think Judith and I are going to go for a walk in El Tránsito.