Nuestros buenos amigos, Thanks for writing comments on our blog. They help us stay connected with you while we are away. We see your faces in our mentes (¿minds, sí) when we read what you have written. For those of you who are wondering how to pronounce the name of our wonderful new city, it is pronounced "Shay-la." The X is pronounced "sh," as in "SHoot, I wrote this whole blog already and just lost it when I tried to save it, so this is round two, which hopefully will improve with age, like vino." We really like our city. There is a bakery on the corner by our homestay. The other day we bought two large rolls and a load of sugar cookies for all of $.50. A whole loaf of banana bread costs $2.
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