Rants

So...I was in the middle of typing an amazing blog when the lights when out. Only for a second! Just enough to lose my blog. This is not the first, but the second time today that I have been using the internet when the electricity has gone out.

Anyways...Jeff forget to tell the most amazing part of the emergency room visit. We hailed a cab on the way there and told the guy we were going to the hospital. Usually someone would think, hospital, quick something must be wrong with somebody. But not our cab driver. Just a normal drive for him. After we got in, he started backing up and yelling on the window to his friend. His friend was having problems hearing him so this went on for quite some time. Carrie, our sitemate, finally mentioned that maybe we should get going because we were going to the HOSPITAL at 10 at night. So we drive, slowly. About 50 yards away he turns on the interior light and starts shuffling through his CDs. Apparently it is best to pull up to the emergency room with just the right music playing. Of course one cannot shuffle and drive at the same time, so again, this took some time. Luckily the perfect music turned out to be Guns N Roses November Rain, thank god. I don´t know what would have happaned if we had driven up to the door with Reggaeton playing. Disaster avoided.

So we´ve been here for 5 months and somethings are becoming all too normal. Sometimes, we think, would we do this in the US? Will our parents and or friends be embarrassed when they come to visit? For instance, now when standing in line, if a line exists, I stand right up on the person in front of me. Don´t want any distance between us or 12 people could sneak in front of us. Also we now drink out of the same glass, soda can what have you, and share forks and spoons with our sitemates. I point with my lips instead of my finger. My feet are always always dirty and I continue to wear flip flops. I don´t shave my legs for long periods of time. We drink soda with every meal. And we don´t do this, but our friend Kat eats everything with her hands. I think she has forgotten how to use a fork. I think that this is maybe going a little too far. (just kidding Kat)

So school has officially started. My school has decided to put off making a permanent schedule for the teachers, so we are going by last years schedule for the next 2 to 3 weeks until we get that. However Jeff´s school seems to be on top of it and is starting classes. That makes sense on the first week of school, huh. So far I have just been observing English classes and going around helping groups. I also help with pronunciation.

Other than that, things are going well! And remember all of you who were going to send me tampons...that would be nice right about now.

Thanks to BJ for a rockin´ package. Frisbee has already been used, and food eaten.