January 10, 2007
Woke up this morning to my roof full of smoke. It smelt like there was a garbage fire right outside our window.
When I looked outside, I realized it was because there was actually a garbage fire outside of my window. The construction site across the street was burning some old wood, grass and im not sure what else. jerks.
After breakfast we went to catch our bus by ourselves for the first time. It went well, except were weren’t excepting the bus to be so early. We weren’t even out of the compound yet when we could se a bus on the road honking like crazy. We didn’t except the bus to be 15min early so we assumed it wasn’t for us. Then some guy on a bike told us that the bus was waiting for us. So we ran for the bus and everything was good.
School went well, but actually learning for so long is really tiring. I was definitely looking forward to the end. We told the cooks the day before that we weren’t coming for lunch so we could go out and spend some time in the city. After walking around for a while we decided to go to a restaurant called loco monos (crazy monkey). For $3 each we got 3 giant plates of really good nachos. After that we got ice cream and went to the market. We wandered around for almost 3 hours. It was really cool to see everyone trying to use their Spanish. I didn’t feel that comfortable with speaking much- because usually it’s a 50 -50 guess of whether im right or not. Usually Dave or someone else would barter and ask the questions.
I feel frustrated because its not going as well as I hoped. I feel like I have re-learn every single thing, and its going too slow.
At night it was more studying and hanging out.
I guess I should explain that I have to keep a journal as homework for our cross-cultural class. I know that all I’ve given you is a basic time line of my days. Ill get into the more interesting things that ive learned in a blog soon. I promise
Woke up this morning to my roof full of smoke. It smelt like there was a garbage fire right outside our window.
When I looked outside, I realized it was because there was actually a garbage fire outside of my window. The construction site across the street was burning some old wood, grass and im not sure what else. jerks.
After breakfast we went to catch our bus by ourselves for the first time. It went well, except were weren’t excepting the bus to be so early. We weren’t even out of the compound yet when we could se a bus on the road honking like crazy. We didn’t except the bus to be 15min early so we assumed it wasn’t for us. Then some guy on a bike told us that the bus was waiting for us. So we ran for the bus and everything was good.
School went well, but actually learning for so long is really tiring. I was definitely looking forward to the end. We told the cooks the day before that we weren’t coming for lunch so we could go out and spend some time in the city. After walking around for a while we decided to go to a restaurant called loco monos (crazy monkey). For $3 each we got 3 giant plates of really good nachos. After that we got ice cream and went to the market. We wandered around for almost 3 hours. It was really cool to see everyone trying to use their Spanish. I didn’t feel that comfortable with speaking much- because usually it’s a 50 -50 guess of whether im right or not. Usually Dave or someone else would barter and ask the questions.
I feel frustrated because its not going as well as I hoped. I feel like I have re-learn every single thing, and its going too slow.
At night it was more studying and hanging out.
I guess I should explain that I have to keep a journal as homework for our cross-cultural class. I know that all I’ve given you is a basic time line of my days. Ill get into the more interesting things that ive learned in a blog soon. I promise
the picture above is the view from my hamock outside our bedroom. after spanish class me and the cat ussualy have a nap there.
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