Salsa Dancing! Cooking! Castles! Parrots!!

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So two days have past since I last wrote on here and I dont even know where to begin!

I had salsa dance lessons at my school the other night. About 10 other students were there. It was such a great time. Im not gunna lie.... ive got some good moves. =P we all had a good time though. Im thinking about signing up for more salsa lessons at a real dance school though. but im also thinking about buying a guitarr and take guitarr lessons. lessons here in anything is extremely cheap! so i might as well take advantage of it.

Ive been getting along great with the family. The only thing that sucks is that they wake up every day for breakfast at 7AM! and they expect me to be there for breakfast too. so last night i rolled in at 330 in the morning and absolutly struggled to get up this morning! last night a group of us went out to Salfari, another popular bar and then to a discotecna. but boy o boy do they play terrible music. haha. ijust laugh the whole time while i dance. the bolivian men will always ask you to dance though. its fun though because they help you with the salsa moves when salsa music comes on. i really like the people here but everyone is leaving at diferent times. so a person can walk into your life one day and be the greatest of friends and then they could be gone tomorrow. but im more than happy to get to know tons of people from around the world. i have the best conversations with them.. for example, the other day was the first time i ever met an israeli. he is here for a few weeks. tomorrow morning me, nicky (a girl from the UK) and Leori (israeli) are going on a huge hike to see cave paintings. we are taking a tour with one of the local bars here.

oh! FUNNY story. so the house that im living at is getting alot of work done to it so there are men working on the house everyday. In order to go to the bathroom, i have to leave my bedroom door and go outside to go to the bathroom. so every time when i go to the bathroom, i hear someone whistling at me.. like a cat call. i would get sooooo annoyed because the last thing i really want to be dealing with is gross old men whistling at me. so the other day when i was eating lunch with victor, he said oh! come out to the courtyard real quick! and there was a parrot sitting on the steps. and what do ya know??? it was the god damn parrot whistling at me!! i almost died!!! the parrot laughs just like a person too and yells.. RICOOOO! ahaha. every time i think about it.. i laugh so hard. =P

but today was eventful! we went to the house of where the president used to live when Sucre was capital around in the 1800s. it was gorgeous, however, it needs to be restored. i took tons of pictures, once i copy them onto a disc i will put them on here.

one other thing about Sucre, there are TONS of dogs.. EVERYWHERE. at every corner of every street there is a dog hanging out. They are harmless.. well everyone i have encountered so far. but i swear i see more dogs than i do children a day. ive been taking tons of pictures of them too... i think ill make a little book about the dogs of Sucre.

k! ive got to go! my friend joeri from holland and i are goin to meet up with some people!

miss u guys!!!!!!!!

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Photos

Parrot
This is the little fella who whistles at me EVERY DAY

Dog in the Castle
relaxing

entrance to the Castle
outside

The castle
outside view

group photo
these are some of my buddies i hang out with in sucre