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I've decided to start telling people about what is going on in my life down here. Things are preeeetty different for me and would like to be able to keep you up to date with changes and goings on.
It's been 2 weeks since I've arrived in La Jara, Colorado. I'm living in an "intentional community" with other Mennonite volunteers. La Jara is a really small town in rural southern Colorado, in the San Luis Valley surrounded by 2 mountain ranges (Sangre de Cristo and San Juan). I'm working as a public health nurse in another small town about an hour north called Center- I'm really liking it so far!
I want to use this blog as a place to tell you what is going on. I want to tell you the good and the bad, truth and thoughts. To start things off, here are some random facts:
- I live at 7,500 ft elevation (yes, you can feel it)
- I live in a town of 850 people
- I see mirages everyday on the road
- Sunflowers grow wild
- It's sunny 350 days a year
- It drops about 30 degrees at night
- There are great sand dunes nearby
- The Rio Grande flows through the valley
- The beginning of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was filmed in the valley

Don't worry, I'll be explaining things about what I'm doing here along the way.