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Published: July 15th 2006
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Katie, Clever, Alex, me, Sarah, Elizabeth YAY!! It is FRIDAY!! I am probably such a horrible teacher, but i am soo looking forward to this weekend when i can really see Otavalo and maybe take a trip or two!
Okay, so last night...can you say salsa lesson?? Haha..Really what we do is dance in front of a mirror for nearly 2 hours until you are exhausted and feel really lame while doing it because the gym is right behind you and creepy guys lifting weights watch you pretending like you know what you are doing. It is great. I took a picture with Clever so yall can see him! But i am going to load it later becaue the connection is horrible.
This morning i woke up at 8:30 which is really late and i loooved it! So i took a hot shower (yesss i soo figured it out now) and had an amazing breakfast. Then, Gilberto (the owner of the Hostel and a helper outer for the foundation and a math teacher in Otavalo) asked me something that i didnt quite catch, so like normal, i said "si". haha. Well he asked me if i wanted to go get his car with him because it was parked far away because there is only room for 2 cars at the hostel...anyways, the point is, it was kinda far and he didnt want to go by his lonesome. So I was said, sure, Ill miss planning this morning..haha. And, Pedro came with us! It was fun..and the car was parked really far. It was really cool walking down the street with Gilberto though because he knows SO many people and has so many friends and is really respected throughout the entire city. He is mestizo, but in college he learned Quichua, the language spoken by the indiginous, and has really tried to make peace between the mestizos and indiginous..(i know im spelling that word wrong. sorry.) Anyways, so we walked there and he told me stories about Pedro and how they lost him at the beach last year for over 2 hours...Pedro was 4 then, and had fallen asleep in a hole (? i didnt quite catch where he was haha) (sound familiar Mom, but with Jess and not at a beach?) It was cute. So we got the car and it had no gas so i had to lend Gilberto 10 dollars, which i know he will pay me back because that is just how people are here. For example, Elizabeth was at some internet cafe and didnt have enough money, so she was allowed to leave and come back to pay. Anyways, it´s pretty cool.
Well after we got back to the hostel I wasn´t feeling very well, so I took a nap. I woke up for lunch, feeling better, and went to school at about 1:30. Today we had a test for the kids! It was on family vocab, colors, shapes, pronouns, and emotions. I think there may have been more but I can´t remember, haha. Anyways, we have nearly 50 students so we had to split them into two groups because they would cheat. So, it was about 2:45 and I was feeling horrible, so I decided I was going to walk home. Our school is REALLY close to our hostel. The only thing is.. I wasnt feeling well and we live on a one-way street so we have to do a little circle thing every time we go to school, so i got really confused. So I started walking..and got confused, and so turned around and walked a different way, but that looked wrong so i went a different way. This is in a more rural place, it isnt just like the city where it is in a grid, ya know? So I tripped and almost fell, and these guys all honk at you when the drive past, and whistle at you when you walk past... I was feeling awful..So i finally found my way back to the school..and Gilberto was there! I saw his car and almost cried. So he took me home even though he was talking to the kids, and it was about 3:30 at this time. Anyways, then Marta, Gilberto´s wife, made me some herbal tea and I drank that and slept for a while. I woke up and felt much much better. yay!
Anyways, I was feeling great later, so that is why I came here! So that is my not so great Friday, but actually after dinner I felt perfect and went out to a discotech, which was fun (just dancing, suzie).
Well that was it! I can´t wait for tomorrow for the market in the morning!
xoxo
laura
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