Thursday, May 22, 2008
It is pretty much the same routine everyday for life around the house. Nolan and I wake up everyday at 7 45 to shower and have ¨el desayuno¨ or breakfast which typically consists of eggs, tropical fruit, coffee, toast, and something else that varies like Frosted Flakes or rice and beans. We then head off to the Veritas Universidad to go to the computers to blog or mess around before class or a field trip around nueve. We still do not have water that is slightly warm, but slowly I am getting immune to the bitter cold. After the field trip we get lunch if we were not served 0n the field trip and then have classes. I still cannot tell how well people can speak English in this country because the people our grandmother brings around the house cannot really speak any English. I also only heard the native students at the Universidad speaking Spanish. But going to tourist places they speak both languages very fluently, and occasionally when it is apparent I am struggling to order or say something some of the native students come out of no where to speak perfect English and help me. The native students here dress very artsy, and the ¨gringots¨ and fully enrolled students tend to almost not acknowledge each other´s existance. After we leave the school we leave to go home on our about 7 minute walk. We are very tired and take an hour or two nap every day, only to be woken up by the knock on our door informing us dinner is ready. The grandma seems to be having worse arthritis every day in her leg, and I just learned today that her maid today was from Nicaragua. She told us today she was very ¨tristes¨ because she only gets to go back to see her family once a year. The atmosphere is very depressing in our house becuase they seem so miserable. After the last class gets out all the students coordinate where and when we want to meet up later that night to hang out and chill.
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