Working in El Jardin

Buenas Tardes!
So, I've finally gotten to work here in Yantalo. I've been working in el Jardin, or the preschool here in Yantalo, helping to teach English classes. There's a girl from Moyobamba already teaching here, but she's very soft-spoken, which doesn't always work well with three, four, and five year olds. The kids here are adorable. They call out to me on the streets when we're walking around and come up and give me hugs. They call me 'profesora' or 'estrella'. I've really enjoyed working there so far.
As for life in Yantalo in general, it's definitely a different world. There are chickens in the backyard and coffee beans drying on tarps in the streets and roosters crowing any time of day or night. Last night for an evening snack we knocked some coconuts down from the tree in our back garden and had coconut water (which is definitely an acquired taste, but I'm learning to like it) and fresh coconut meat. Something funny, they don't really believe in mixing things here. If you ask for a salad you'll get a plate that has a pile of avacado, a pile of cucumber, and a pile of tomato. Last night Caleb mixed his coconut with passion fruit and mandarina in the shell, which was way good, but when he showed it to Flora she looked disgusted. It was funny. Sadly they don't really sell fruit or veggies in Yantalo, so we stock up while we're here in Moyobamba. What do they eat then, you may ask? The answer is pretty much always rice, potatoes, and chicken, sometimes beef. Today they really switched things up by having pasta. In general, life here is good. It's definitely a different time frame, and when we find ourselves waiting we joke about being on Peruvian time. The people here live really day to day. We go to the school and they say 'how about you give a presentation on your major--right now' or 'how about you teach a class on nutrition--right now', which definitely make things interesting. We realized that we're really pretty much going to coordinate everything here ourselves, so we should be getting a lot of that done this week, plus we've got some really fun activities planned.
Something cool we did this week--Wuilman, the coordinator for Yantalo, took us up to his family's chacra, or field. He and his brothers were setting up a boundary to mark his land, because since his dad died people keep encroaching on it. They taught us about a lot of different plants and some bugs (bugs are a major part of life here, and sadly one method of entertainment for us. We watched a spider and a beetle battle it out the other night). We also got to try sugar cane, which is tastey, and pacai, which are these bean pods about a foot and a half long that grow on trees. The seeds are in this spongey white stuff that you suck off and then spit out the seeds. I actually didn't catch the spit out the seeds part until after I'd eaten four or five, but it's been more than 48 hours and there seem to be no ill effects, which is relieving. We've gotten to try a lot of fun fruit since getting here, and it's all good.
Anyway, I'm alive and well and learning to enjoy things like cold showers and lots of rice, and I promise I'll try to get some pictures up soon. I forgot my cord again today. Adios!