I´m here, everything´s going well. My family is amazing! I gave them my twin maples leaf picture last night and they loved it. Then I showed them all my other pictures and they loved them so much. I love it here. Yesterday in class it was so hard. We´re in orientation all day, them just talking in spanish and I want to understand everything but cant and it gets really frustrating. My friend Amy here is having severe culture shock and I feel bad bc there´s really´nothing I can do except be there and speak eng with her bc shes so sick of spanish right now.
Last night we played dominios and I kept winning and my family is awesome1!! Cant say it enough how great they are, I feel so at home. When I showed they pictures of our family g-ma was in one and I said she´s a little crazy and the dad said, Alzhiemers? And he pulled out some herbal supplement from Utah that strenghthens and repair nerve connections in the brain. He has lots of herbal supps and its really cool bc that´s the stuff Cathy uses also. We all have a lot in common.
Today we had to take public transportation (Amy and I live very close to eachother) with the mom from my house. We caught a public car, don´t worry its safe, and it took us almost all the way and then cut diagonally across the road almost into a huge bus. Nothing really phases me here, so I was just like ok, but it turns out we had a flat on a front tire. So we got out and he flagged down a friend who took us. And when we got in he looked at me with blonde hair and Amy w red and said, Blondies-reds, i said in english to Amy, GREEEAT. At that point she was so sick of the whole thing she didn´t even care.
We get so dragged down that our only defense is to be slap happy and laugh. The classroom part of the day was pretty draining yesterday but then we left and I could understand everything and talk a lot, so what´s the deal? No se.
We live half an hour from FLACSO, the main place but there are about 4 universities that we´re supposed to choose classes from. A little overwhelming. And we´re supposed to sign up for 10 and go to them all to see if we like them bc you can drop, but not add. So you have to travel to a million schools and 10 classes for like the first month and navigate your way, and freakin try to understand everyone!! I was a little upset yesterday after sitting in that stupid classroom ALL DAY and not picking any of that up. Then I told Arianna, one of the leaders, that I needed help choosing my classes and Amy started crying, so Arinna ended up just talking to us for half hour to calm us down, and told us all that was covered throughout the day. Mind you, she spoke spanish the whole time too, I just understand everything she says and not anything the other lady says. But everyone is so nice, it´s just getting used to the accents of every different person that is the challenge.
I haven´t gotten a cell phone yet bc the stores close at 5 and we are in orientation until then.
So Chris, i keep remembering your advice and i´m not stressing about the classes part bc i have no idea what they are, so i´m not even looking at the list until someone helps me. And I just keep reminding myself that I´m here because I love the people and want to learn. I remember all these thoughts, and all of your love. Country song: I´m carrying your love with with me.
I appologize for the grammer and spellings and weird characters that might pop up. It´s more important that I get everything down and you guys know how its going than i write well...!
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