falling skies. so if anyone reads or sees the news, please tell me what in the world is going on down here. it has been raining for well over 24 hours! not usual and now the roofs are leaking. too funny.

the other two profs are freaking out because they have over 30 students in their level 1 classes. i am set right now with my two classes- 13 level 5, 16 in level 2. level 5 is awesome. level 2, clearly, needs much more help, but i have high hopes.

i love the rain because it has finally cooled down some. i am actually wearing one of the two long sleeve shirts that i brought with me. yay. i tell you, little things really make me happy.

my spanish has stalled a bit. i can communicate so-so, but have not been devoting enough time to really reading and practicing my writing. my speaking ability has improved, but i am still using the same 25 or 30 verbs to explain everything. it just feels weird to say the same thing over and over. oh well, it could be worse. the newest prof is really struggling. she is kicking herself for not arriving weeks earlier, which she could have i just found out! oh well, sucks for her, but arash and i help out where we can. i think she is just really overwhelmed right now. kind of where i was a month ago, so i can empathize.

wow, how am i not coming up with a funny story? i am sure i have ten or so to tell, but nothing is coming to me right now. boo.

i think i am going to buy a frig. my new friends the jorges, oscar omar chavez rodríguez (every time he sees me, ten times or more a day, he insists on saying my complete full name, and his accent kills me, so now i say his complete name every time i see him) and paco cannot believe it. i constantly tell them i am poor, have no money because i have student loan debt, blah blah blah and thus do not want to spend money on ... whatever. you all know how cheap i am, so this is no surprise. they love it. they all call me the rich american (they use american on purpose to mess with me because they know damn well that they are americans too) and that i should buy dinner and so on. anyway, long story short is that my new friends are awesome. they treat me as an equal and help me when i have problems with the language. even with my limited vocabulary i am able to joke with them. they have already adopted some of my phrases. por ejemplo: ¿por qué no? which translates to why not? apparently no one uses it down here. well, i use it every time they ask me something that i want to do. do you want this kind of food? por qué no?! it is a trip because they all use it now. they laugh and laugh. when one of them makes an obvious question and the other starts to give a normal answer, one of them will interupt and remind them, ¿por qué no? i will have to remember my other great catch phrases.

gotta run because i have a new lunch schedule. three hours! woo hoo