August 27

Today was a great day! I slept in til about 9:30 which felt good since I wasn’t feeling too good last night. I think it was too much of that strange new drink. It has a bunch of tea leaves in a cup and you pour koolaid over it and drink out of a metal straw with a strainer at the bottom. It’s quite good. Anyways, back to today… I got to go outside! Until this point, I hadn’t left the house, but Coni, Juanmi, and I went into town this evening. I got my money exchanged and I bought some tshirts for my school uniform. And I also went to the supermarket and got some drinks for tonight. It was so cool to see the “city.” Nothing is over 3 stories high, but there is a ton of land covered. The people are quite nice and I got to see a lot. Juanmi speaks English quite well, so he has been helping me out a ton. I feel like I can ask him what everything is much easier than Coni. And it helps him with his English too. To learn my new words, I try to remember to put them on sticky notes on my computer. That way I can see them all the time. I think that it will work quite well. I am already feeling quite at home here. It’s so great. I hope that school goes just as well for me. Oh, and my parents and Chabelli will hopefully be home tomorrow. so, that will be interesting. We’ve been listening to music and dancing around all evening and I’m having a GREAT time. Signing off for today!