Today was the first day of classes, a little disorganized but I suppose it was dece. My first class was supposed to be at 10 so I got up extra early to look pretty for my classmates but by the time I walked to school I was completely full of sweat so that backfired.. but when I got there I found out that my teacher was out of town so I just had to walk right back. Because I was already so hot and gross I decided to walk, so went back to the University to run/walk for like 45 minutes which was really good even though it was hot. People still cat call you when you’re running and dripping with sweat, it’s incredible.
For lunch we had spaghetti, which has a way different sauce than our spaghetti but was one of the best things I’ve ever had in my life. We also had juice made from star fruit.. so many ridiculous juices made fresh, I can’t even handle it. I read and napped on the deck after lunch until my afternoon class at 4. I got there about 15 minutes to find it because it was in a building I didn’t know, but it ended up taking about 45 minutes to find our class so we were half an hour late. It was really frustrating to walk around and have people tell us all the wrong directions (we weren’t that bad at Spanish, they were bad directions) but finally found someone who called someone to find the right building and once we got there (a building where we asked directions before and people led us out of) we talked to one more guy who led us to an unlabeled classroom. Mess. It’s definitely a little disorganized, we’ve noticed that with things being late and people kind of disregarding times, but I think its more just something that I need to accept and not worry about because I always get antsy when things get off schedule but I think the people are much more relaxed because they aren’t so schedule focused so hopefully I can mix the two to be organized but not antsy, we’ll see. Ramble, sorry, but our teacher seemed nice and I’m excited to read all the stuff (it’s a literature class). I was supposed to have one more class from 7-9 but that got cancelled too so I only have two real classes and my dance class until next week. I’m puuumped for dance tomorrow, hopefully I can perfect the skills I learned this weekend.
After dinner (Rosie and I finished off the spaghetti.. can’t get enough) Rosie and I hung out with mama for a really long time and it was really fun to feel like we were having a real conversation rather than practicing Spanish and getting to know you questions and answers. She told us all about baseball (baseball is huge down here, people go to baseball school, there are giant parties when the teams win, Sammy Sosa is awesome, etc), about how she learned how to cook and how she loves to cook, and she told us how her and papa met (in a class to learn English, it was not love at first sight she said, haha). And she just talked about how happy she was for marrying papa and how she loves her family and her life and is so grateful for everything. It was really cool to hang out with her because she’s just such an interesting, kind, and overall awesome person. Then Rosie, mama, and I watched the movie Seven (about the seven deadly sins con brad pitt? Not for sure if it’s actually called seven but something like that) that was in Spanish but had no written subtitles, I had a little trouble but Rosie had already seen it so she helped me through. I have class at 8 tomorrow so it’s time for bed, but I hear there’s a blizzard at home so be safe, and I’ll be tanning but thinking of all of you. LOVE LOVE