GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAL

So, today hasn’t been real exciting. Noralma leaves for work before seven, Claudia and Leonardo leave a little after 8, and Ricardo leaves around 8ish, so I am home with just Fatima and Marybel/vel until about 1 o’clock, when everyone comes home for lunch. It’s okay though, because I know that they are all busy. I study Spanish and read the newspaper, and just keep myself busy. Today I went with Fatima to pick up Ricardo from his kindergarten. It is a 5 minute walk from our house. And that was the most exciting thing that I did today! Wahoo! At about 2, a lady came to our house to do Claudia and Noralma’s nails! Apparently here they will come to your house, and a manicure is only 4 or 5 dollars. I didn’t want one today because I don’t like talking to people in ENGLISH when I get my nails done, and I didn’t really think that it would be much better in Spanish. Maybe next week.
Today after lunch I had a REAL CONVERSATION (well, kind of) with Lenny, the guy who works in the butcher shop and has lunch with us every day. I was quite proud of myself. :)
AAH I FORGOT- last night I went with Claudia and Emilio to the hospital (which is like a 3 minute walk from the house) because they had a friend who was there. I asked why he was there, and we had to look it up- I guess something was wrong with his gall bladder. Anyway, they asked me how to pronounce ‘gall’, and so I did. And they were like, ‘Ah, okay- like GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAL!’. I think that was the best part of my day. :) It was definitely better than the part where a pigeon fell off the hospital onto the ground next to us and died. :/
Right now I am watching a Bourne movie in English with Spanish subtitles. Every time I see a word that I don’t know, I look it up and write it down. I have like 9 pages of random words that I have written down over the past 5 days. :) Hasta Luego!
LOVE, Kirsty