and so it begins....

A Breath of fresh air and and another (more grateful)perspective….

 

Well I’ve been pretty lame and waite d three days to post another blog.. sorry folks- not that I’m so conceited to think that you’ve been checking regularly….ha.

 

Anyways I was trying, a bit unsuccessfully, to post a few pictures from Sunday however thos will have to come later.

 

For now here is a quick update:

 

I caught a cold- so now I’m all gross and stuffy in the city inhaling dirty city air into my congested self.  Oh … I miss salt water & dodging mean jelly fish…..

 

One of my professors said that if you were to fall in to the River Riachuelo here you might as well stay there, drowning would be far more pleasant than dying from all thos toxins you would have absorbed during your swim- no matter how brief it was.  Scaryy huh?

 

Well, Julia and I started our Language class today- Hooray… I feel like now I can progress, rather than just being where I am…flat, immobile, having plateau-ed (maybe that’s not a verb…maybe it is?).

 

Well our group is pretty diverse:

-       a Swiss professor on sabbatical

-       a Chinese lady with her baby

-       a Lawyer from New York

-       an English guy who is here to work w/ horses

-       a Japanese guy… who is here to study?

-       A girl from Colorado who just moved here permanently

-       A guy from Kentucky who works in a French restaurant

-       Julia

-       & ME

 

I don’t think I have forgotten anyone… oh well I can always edit this later right?

 

And, as for that more grateful perspective I mentioned earlier: I am so glad to be in a situation where I can speak Spanish all the time. Part of me feels jealous that I’ve never had the experience of living in an international student housing… It seems like it would be s much fun… Julia has, but at the same time, I know that my home stays in Costa Rica and Nicaragua were why I was able to improve so quickly… If I hadn’t done that I would have been speaking English the majority of the time, and now the only time I revert t English is with the international students during break, or when I’m here writing to you. (I dislike the verb blog- to blog- blogging… I just find it very ugly). Anyways…. What I’m trying to say is that I am grateful to once again be in a home stay where I don’t have to worry about cooking my own dinner and I have the opportunity to practice all the time, not just in the class room. And Julia and I are pretty awesome about not speaking in English together… you know we’re pretty super….ha ha…

 

Okay well I think that’s enough I have to go to bed…or, I won’t survive my classes tomorrow.