September 6

Well, today was rather eventful so far. I went to school which was a waste. (as always.) I was unbelievable bored. I slept half of the day and the other half of the day, Jane, Marcos, and I played either hangman or the dot game. Oh, and I made a maze for Nico to do also. That’s my day at school.

So, after school I took a nap as soon as I could. I slept about an hour and a half then a skype call from Jane woke me up just in time for me to have lunch. Lunch was so good: Spaghetti with a little bit of sauce with some kind of squash and chicken. Muy rico! Then, right after lunch, I went downtown with Jane where I met her friend Belén who works at a hostel. I don’t know how exactly she met her, but she’s very nice and she’s one of those few people here that I can understand very well. It’s weird, when I’m not in school, I can seem to understand things much easier than when I am in school. I swear that place is a black hole. It will be the death of me. My whole family wonders why I don’t go to San Lucas. I mean, both of my parents work there, it’s right next to my house, and my sisters go there too. It’s stupid. I am gonna ask if I can go there. I don’t care if I offend mr. montalvo. Well, I don’t want to leave Jane by herself. I couldn’t do that. Maybe the next school year I can get her to go to San Lucas with me. Anyways, back on topic….

We then met up with Angie and we all proceeded to go to the bus station to buy some tickets for our trip this weekend. Which leads to another side note. We have a Rotary leadership conference that all the exchange students must attend. It is in Residencia, Chaco which is a ten hour away from Iguazú. Aye. Well, Jane and I were all stressed out about this thing because she and I got this information only 2 days ago and the papers were due to the woman in charge today! So we are frantically trying to find out as much as we could. We didn’t know when the buses ran and what time we would get there. And so we didn’t know if we would have to find a place for all of us to stay for the nights before and after the conference. We were like panicking until we emailed the lady with all our questions. And she responded back quite quickly! (this was amazing for me because I’m used to dealing with people who are hard to contact and never helpful.(my travel agent)) She said that she would set us up with a hostel for the days that we would be there extra. She said it’d only be about 25 pesos per person per night. That’s really reasonable. We’ll just either need to take food or buy some when we get down there. That sounds pretty good to me. And guess what’s better???? We don’t have to go to school on Friday or Monday. That’s the best advantage of the whole thing! The conference seems quite strange. Like, there’s speakers on the most random things: organ donation and managing your sexuality. So so strange. Anyways, I’m off track again...

So, we bought our round trip tickets for around 242 pesos. I think that’s kinda pricey, but I guess it is a long ride. Then we had to go to gym class. Ick. It was so boring. We are doing our “dance” unit, but it’s only running around 10 times and then standing around. I think that we got like 2 moves choreographed. Anyways, that was only an hour. I came home and got some work on the computer done and that’s where I am now. I am going to play volleyball with Jane at 9, so I’ll have to let you know how that goes!

Volleyball was a lot of fun! It was kinda creepy walking that far in the dark, but it was no big deal. I really like being able to be around other people besides the English speakers that I know. I like that my family is really laid back on where I go and when. I think that I’ll join dance classes on Wednesday. Ballet and Arabian! Woo!