13 Enero
Today was a really smooth, relaxing day. I had my history of the Caribbean class this morning at 8 (vom, but not too bad) which was actually really cool and I’m really excited for. I can understand almost everything the prof says, and he’s really excited about history and how it has an impact on everyone (kristaaa historyyy!). He seems really enthusiastic about teaching and about the material so I’m pumped. After class I met with Trena to try to figure out what classes we wanted to take and after being rejected from tacking the movie class because it conflicted with another class, I decided to change to the community service class that you take two hours of class for a week then do four hours of service in a school or other place. We’re going too look at all of the different options on Friday so hopefully I can be in a school and play with kids. For lunch we had rice and beans and these things that tasted like pancakes but were like fried and really good. We also had pork-chops kind of that were baked with pineapple, awesome. After lunch I had my first dance class.. so much fun! We learned the basics of Meringue and the hour went by really fast, I’m really excited to keep taking that class because it’s just really fun and will be something different than I’ve ever done. (poet and I didn’t even realize it). Rosie and I walked/ran after class then relaxed afterwards. She had class later but I was done for the day so I watched law and order with mama and an episode of wife swap about a pirate family and an extreme neat freak family. We had a good time. We talked with mama about politics in the US and in Latin America and about Cuba for a really long time after dinner, I just love talking about real things with her. Getting up at 7 is not what I’m into so I passed out around 11 even though I don’t have anything to do tomorrow.

14 Enero
Another very relaxing, calm day. Trena, Rosie and I went to the Supermercado to buy books for our lit class. We had a tough time finding them and we asked a guy for help and ended up talking to him for awhile about how we were studying here and stuff. He called over his friend and told us that they wanted to take us out dancing sometime and wrote down their numbers and stuff and gave them to us. It’s too funny how easy it is for people to come up to you just because you’re American.
For lunch we had standard rice and beans but also had eggplant that was hot and mixed with cheese and like a casserole kind of.. it looked similar to vomit but tasted awesome. I’m so excited to be trying so many things and that I like so many different things. We’re going to have mama teach us how to cook some things so we don’t go through withdrawal when we get home.
I was trying to read my first novela for our lit class on the roof but fell asleep for almost an hour (so much for being rested after almost 10 hours of sleep) but it feels so good to just fall asleep and not set an alarm and not worry about anything.
I cleaned my room and skyped my parents in the afternoon and read about 20 pages of my novela (we have a month to read it but I want to get a start before I have homework from other classes.. and I probably missed about 2/3 of what I thought I understood so I’m going to wait to discuss with Rosie and Trena so I don’t get too far with a completely incorrect plot). We had mashed potatoes and eggplant for dinner, even the mashed potatoes seemed to taste so much better here. Awesome. Rosie wants to go out tonight but I have four classes tomorrow.. lame but I’m really excited to go out tomorrow night. Three day weekends are something I could definitely get used to. Time for bed because I have class at 8 and can’t come home until after 6, bleh, but then it’s the weekend so I’m sure I’ll have more to write about! XOXO.